Rep. Frank Niceley and Stanley Dobson, president of TN Appaloosa Horse Association, both spoke before the House Ag Committee this past Tuesday regarding Rep. Niceley’s bill against the NAIS. In God’s wonderful providence it happened to be some sort of Farm Bureau Member day on the hill and the room was packed with regular Farm [...]

Those that promote the NAIS have continually attacked and pushed their agenda with “this is inevitable; this is coming and there’s nothing we can do about it so you might as well accept it.” The following article is living proof that they are not telling the truth: Animal Identification Group Deactivates by Pat Raia, TheHorse.com [...]

The Tennessee House Ag Committee held a meeting this morning to hear testimony from Jim Acres of the South Eastern Livestock Network (SLN). Formed by the Cattlemen’s Associations of 10 South-Eastern states, SLN aims to make money off cattlemen by managing a database for farms, and by selling RFID tags and readers. HB 1855 would [...]