Cattle producers inform court RFID Mandate is not resolved

Last week the attorney for R-CALF USA and several individual rancher-plaintiffs, who alleged in October that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and its Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) violated U.S. law by attempting to force radio frequency identification (RFID) technology upon the entire U.S. cattle industry, filed a response to the agencies’ motion to dismiss.

The...