Cattleman association welcomes new livestock regulations
The chair of Saskatchewan’s Cattleman’s Association believes new mandatory regulation is the right way to prevent the spread of disease among livestock.
Early last month, the province announced all livestock producers have to take part in the Premises Identification (PID) program, which tracks and controls potential disease outbreaks like tuberculosis and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) more commonly known as mad cow disease.
Ryan Beierbach, chair of the Saskatchewan Cattlemen’s Association, said the association has been advocating for the province-wide regulation for some time.
“It’s more preventative. It is sort of like buying insurance,” he said. “What it does is if we have some kind of an outbreak of a disease, it lets us know where all the cattle are that have been in contact with that animal are, or maybe born or raised in the same place.”