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Transcript: Analysis: Why many livestock-producing states are telling ranchers to take precautions even though foot-and-mouth disease has not appeared in the United States since 1929
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- NPR All Things Considered
- Article date:
- March 14, 2001
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Analysis: Why many livestock-producing states are telling ranchers
to take precautions even though foot-and-mouth disease has not appeared
in the United States since 1929
Host: NOAH ADAMS
Time: 8:00-9:00 PM
NOAH ADAMS, host:
In addition to the US ban now imposed on some meat products from the
European Union, many states are now encouraging precautions against
foot-and-mouth. Texas is one state warning ranchers to take preventative
steps. From Austin, Janet Heimlich reports.
JANET HEIMLICH reporting:
About 30 miles south of Austin, the Lockhart Cattle Auction is about
to get under way.
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