ROSWELL LIVESTOCK AUCTION SALES, INC.
NEWS UPDATE
& ROSWELL LIVESTOCK AUCTION TRUCKING, INC.
900 North Garden · P.O. Box 2041 Roswell, New Mexico 88201 575/622-5580 www.roswelllivestockauction.com CATTLE SALES: MONDAYS HORSE SALES
BENNY WOOTON CELL 575/626-4754 SMILEY WOOTON CELL 575/626-6253 Producers hauling cattle to Roswell Livestock New Mexico Receiving Stations need to call our toll-free number for a Transportation Permit number before leaving home. The Hauling Permit number 1-800-748-1541 is answered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Trucks are available 7 days a week / 24 hours a day
Roswell livestock Auction Receiving stAtions LORDSBURG, NM 20 Bar Livestock Highway #90 at NM #3 – East side of highway. Receiving cattle for transport 2nd & 4th Sunday of each month. Truck leaves Lordsburg on Sunday at 2:00 p.m. (MST) Smiley Wooton, 575/622-5580 office, 575/6266253 cell. PECOS, TX Jason Heritage is now receiving cattle every Sunday. For information to unload contact Jason Heritage 575/8409544 or Smiley Wooton 575/626-6253. NO PRIOR PERMITS REQUIRED. Trucks leave Sunday at 4:00 p.m. (CST) VAN HORN, TX 800 West 2nd, 5 blocks west of Courthouse. Bob Kinford, 432/284-1553. Trucks leave 1st & 3rd Sunday at 3:00 p.m. (CST) MORIARTY, NM Two blocks east and one block south of Tillery Chevrolet. Smiley Wooton 575/622-5580 office, 575/626-6253 mobile. Trucks leave Sunday at 3:00 p.m. (MST) SAN ANTONIO, NM River Cattle Co. Nine miles east of San Antonio on U.S. 380. Receiving cattle for transport 2nd & 4th Sunday of each month. Michael Taylor 575/418-7398. Trucks leave Sunday at 3:00 p.m. (MST)
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SEPTEMBER 2020
NCBA Backs Expansion of CattleTrace System
by Lisa M. Keefe, meatingplace.com
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he National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) has adopted a policy in support of U.S. CattleTrace as an avenue for achieving better disease traceability in the U.S. cattle industry, the association said in a news release. The policy resolution calls for NCBA to support the expansion of U.S. CattleTrace and directs the organization to encourage and help facilitate state affiliate support and educational efforts. U.S. CattleTrace is a partnership of multiple state cattlemen’s organizations from major beef producing regions, founded to develop a national infrastructure for disease traceability and to encourage private industry participation. The partnership endorses the use of one technology for a United States cattle industry disease traceability system to maximize the value of technology investment, and supports a transition to ultra-high frequency technology by the end of 2023. Animal disease traceability has been part of NCBA’s Beef Industry Long Range Plans since 2016. Traceability is increasingly important in the cattle and beef industries, not only to prevent the spread of disease among herds, but also because export markets increasingly demand that imported beef goods be traceable back to the farm. Getting agreement on the right technology for that type of system in the U.S. has proven difficult among the various links of the beef supply chain. In August 2018, CattleTrace Inc. was formally established as a private, not-for-profit corporation to securely maintain and manage the data collected as part of the disease traceability pilot project. For more information, visit https://www.uscattletrace.org/ .
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Statement from U.S. Census Bureau Director: Delivering a Complete & Accurate 2020 Census Count
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he U.S. Census Bureau continues to evaluate its operational plans to collect and process 2020 Census data. On August 3, 2020, we announced updates to our plan that will include enumerator awards and the hiring of more employees to accelerate the completion of data collection and apportionment counts by our statutory deadline of December 31, 2020, as required by law and directed by the Secretary of Commerce. The Census Bureau’s new plan reflects our continued commitment to conduct a com-
