This new article on NAIS contains information about new funding for a PR campaign to promote the NAIS as well as some useful information and perspectives on...
If you can, come join us at the Townsend Rally against NAIS. It's from 10-2 this Saturday at the corner of Rte. 13 and Rte. 119. We'll be celebrating local...
Please forward this announcement and feel free to print out and post the attached poster. Thanks you, Ben Grosscup 413-658-5374 ... *Informational Meeting on...
This is a run-down of all the different events that different organizations around Massachusetts are sponsoring on NAIS in the near future. If you live in...
For those trying to get a better understanding of the issues of how bird flu has spread in Southeast Asia, and what role wild bird do and do not play in the...
This is a reply to a recent Guide put out by USDA on the National Animal Identification System. It is written by Judith McGeary from Texas who has been active...
For those of you who would like to see the NOFA conference debate on NAIS coming up this August 12 in Amherst, it is free and open to the public (details...
*Important Introduction* This is Ben Grosscup, NAIS Response Coordinator for the Northeast Organic Farming Association, Massachusetts Chapter. Many of you have...
I had a couple of ideas I wanted to run by you folks and ask your help with. After our less than thrilling meeting with the legislators in July, I started...
*Contents: 1. Movement Against NAIS in Massachusetts Pursues Long-Term Strategy **2. Local Event: Informational Meeting on NAIS **- August 29, 7pm, Agawam* *3....
*Contents: *1. Link to An open Letter to Commissioner Gillespie about MDAR's Role in Implementing NAIS <http://www.nofamass.org/programs/pdfs/ATT00114.pdf> by...
The vast public outcry in Vermont has already had a powerful effect in pressuring the Ag Secretary in that state to back off on implementing the first stages...
*Reminder: Upcoming Informational Meeting on NAIS* These are the dates, times and town where 3 upcoming meetings on NAIS are happening: Agawam, August 29...
I received my premise identification number, account number, username, and password from MDAR. Accuracy of information doesn't look too good since they...
The government documents regarding the Henshaw Incident: http://nonais.org/index.php/2006/09/29/henshaw-incident/ are now downloadable at the end of this...
Jeff -- Your comment raises one of the issues I had about the agreement -- is NAIS the MDAR who has directed me to this site or the USDA or who? How can anyone...
Tricia, Thanks for reporting on this. Are there any others who have received their PIN numbers from the state? Gillespie promised that this would happen at the...
I spoke with Mike Cahill this afternoon -- seems like a very straightforward, knowledgeable person. Easy to converse with. He basically said that the state was...
In this email there are announcements for two upcoming Informational Meetings on NAIS in Great Barrington and then in Whately. Then I included an editorial...
*1. Local Event: Informational Forum on NAIS - Thursday, November 2, 7pm, Southwick * *What:* Farmers and state officials will hold an informational forum on a...
*Contents:* *1. NOFA/Mass **Press Release: Facing Opposition, USDA and MDAR Back Off Mandatory Animal ID Plan* *2. Shift to voluntary animal ID program doesn't...
Well, the meeting last night went well. Only 6 people there last night, besides my dad and I. But we had quite a good discussion, and I passed out the NoNAIS...
*News:* The Vermont Agency of Agriculture (AoA) has recently chosen not to apply for federal funding under the USDA's Fiscal Year 2007 Cooperative Agreement...
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