[Fwd: Re: What would you farmers want if it were a bill happening in your state?]

[Guest guest]

Hi Carolyn,

Yes I got this email privately off list and was still mulling it over.

Thanks!

D.

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> 1... Testing? get your own lab.

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> 2... A grass only rule, rules out goat farms...

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> I live in northern montana. I chose this cold mountanous reigon to do my

> organic goat farm because the worms and paracites freeze every year for 6

> months. We might get 90 days of growing grass if it does not freeze in

> july. my herbal worming program works very well. I use a microscope to do

> fecal exams on my whole herd of 40 goats. I hope to grow the herd to 200

> goats on my 21 acres. My husband runs the creamery that is 0ver 100 yards

> away from the livestock and could make raw products safely but the law

> forbids it. He has a labratory and can conduct his own testing and

> culturing. If a problem arises where the state or federal testing shows

> pathogens in our cheese we can theoretically go straight to our lab and

> duplicate the results right there. The lab adds a giant expense to the

> whole creamery but it ellimminates the issue of contaminated samples. It

> also works like a back up system to help the feds double check their

>