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R-CALF member explains group’s opposition to RFID system

One group that has been fighting the USDA’s plans to make radio-frequency animal identification (RFID) the law of the land (see main story) is R-CALF USA. Ken Fox, who runs an Angus/Angus-cross cow-calf operation in South Dakota with his wife, three sons and grandkids, has served as the cattle group’s Animal Identification Committee Chair for…
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USDA moves toward all-RFID system for officially identifying cattle

The USDA has reopened the debate in the cattle industry on radio-frequency tags with a new proposal that has the stated goal of increasing overall traceability in case of disease outbreaks in cattle. It asked the industry to weigh in with comments on its plan to make low-frequency identification tags, commonly known as RFID tags,…
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Landlords align to overturn eviction moratorium

Numerous struggling tenants have been spared since a national eviction moratorium took effect Sept. 4. Now a group of landlords, including the most aggressive filer of evictions in Akron during this pandemic, is fighting to get rid of it. Federal lawsuits filed in Georgia and Ohio are the first of more to come as landlords seek to overturn an order by the Centers…
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5th Circuit to decide en banc if constitutional challenge can block SEC administrative proceeding

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has given Michelle Cochran one more chance to block the Securities and Exchange Commission from pushing ahead with an administrative proceeding against her. Cochran, a certified public accountant from Texas, has already been through one administrative proceeding before an SEC judge. In 2017, Administrative Law Judge Cameron Elliot…
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