Below is the USDA’s schedule as outlined in the Draft Strategic Plan and Draft Program Standards on April 25, 2005. Currently NAIS is voluntary in most states although Texas and Wisconsin have already made the Premise ID portion mandatory with huge fines for non-compliance. NAIS is being put in place, as we speak, without our votes. The USDA’s plan is that NAIS will be mandatory for all farms and homes with any of the designated livestock. Note that the USDA and states can advance the plan faster than this timetable at their whim.
Update: The real world was not kind to the USDA’s plans for NAIS. It is now January 2010 and NAIS is still pretty much dead in the water. According to the USDA’s plans NAIS was supposed to be fully implemented by now. The reality is:
Premises ID has not been implemented.
Animal Tagging has not been implemented.
Animal Tracking has not been implemented.
Over 90% of farmers and consumers were vehemently against NAIS both in independent polls and at the USDA’s own listening sessions in 2009.
Congress has defunded NAIS.
Proponents of NAIS, who benefit by selling tags and market monopolies through Big Ag, continue to promote NAIS quietly looking for back doors through which they might slip the noose over the necks of free farmers and consumers. Be vigilant and keep supporting small-scale local agriculture. That is where food security lies.
Timeline Facts
Beginning in 2002 - Using the 9/11 terrorist scare and the threat of BSE (mad cow disease) the USDA lobbied for more control and power.
April 2005 - USDA issued “Draft Strategic Plan and Draft Program Standards” for public comment. The public comment period for those documents ended in early July 2005. Virtually nobody in the “public” knew about the comment period or NAIS at this point. The USDA and its big stakeholders (Big Agri-Biz) have kept it all very hush-hush so that people would not resist this usurpation of private property and rights.
January 2006 - NAIS based rules implemented in Texas and Wisconsin. no exceptions. Later Texas backs down due to strong grass roots opposition.
April 2006 - USDA releases updated document saying NAIS will be voluntary for now if we are good and all signup. See Mafia Style “Voluntary” article. Required compliance level looks to be 100% - see page 3 of April 2006 USDA document.
June 2006 - USDA releases “Guide to Small Non-Commercial Producers” which appears to be an attempt to reassure homesteaders. I feel ill.
July 2006 - USDA to issue rules setting forth the requirements for NAIS premises registration, animal identification, and animal tracking. This is a crucial time for consumers, homesteaders, pet owners and small farmers who will be harmed by NAIS. There will be a limited public comment period after publication of the rules, and objections expressed in the public comments may persuade the USDA to modify, or abandon, some requirements. Mark your calendars and start taking action now! Cancelled by the USDA - See this article.
July 1, 2006 - Premises registration will be compulsory in Texas Postponed by Texas due to strong opposition by small farmers and homesteaders at TAHC meetings.
Fall 2007 - USDA to publish final rules of mandatory NAIS.
January 2008 - Premise ID and Animal ID become mandatory nationwide. It is already mandatory in some states, including Wisconsin and Texas starting January 2006. USDA backs off of mandatory due to massive grassroots opposition.
January 1st, 2009 - Animal tracking, logging and reporting components of NAIS become mandatory. Strict enforcement, fines, inspections of properties and confiscation of livestock can be done by the USDA or state government without trial or legal hearings. Since mandatory Premise ID and Animal ID were put on hold the Animal Tracking component of NAIS is not implemented. The Monstersanto’s representative from Connecticut is upset.
January 2nd, 2009 - U.S.A. christens the rise of the new Nazi era because Republicans, Democrats and Independents failed to stand up for their rights while they still could. All food production is controlled by the Govi-Corp conglomerate and pets are outlawed. Our Bill of Rights is retired and burned for kindling. The US Constitution is rewritten giving hereditary power to the Presidency under the Patriot Act. Voting is abolished and Congress is disbanded.
April 2009 - New head of the USDA, Secretary Tom Vilsack, initiates Listening sessions to get more feedback from more than just the big producers. Send him your comments. Now is your time to be heard.
August 2009 - USDA listening sessions on NAIS end. The response was overwhelmingly against NAIS with almost 100% of the people speaking out against the program. Congress defunds NAIS rejecting the USDA’s budget requests for the program and giving them just enough money to wind down the failed project.
August 2009 - NIAA continues to push for NAIS despite massive opposition from both the public and farmers. Big Ag exporters and other special interest groups who would benefit from taxpayer funding of such a mandatory system have not given up, yet.
September 2009 - Indiana violates USDA policy on NASS data privacy using the information to push NAIS. Will the USDA actually stand behind their policies and prosecute Indiana or is this a new way of pushing NAIS being used by the USDA with the state government as a front man?
September 2009 - Some states have begun returning grant money they had received to fund NAIS saying that it is not worth the costs. NAIS is floating like a dead fish whirling in the waste stream towards the drain.
February 5th, 2010 - USDA Secretary Vilsack formally announces that they are abandoning NAIS and will focus instead on less onerous disease tracking after getting feedback from farmers and consumers who almost universally rejected NAIS. We will see what exactly the new initiatives involve. Hopefully they will be truly voluntary, focus on real problems such as import quarantine, education and CAFOs, put the burden on the big producers where it belongs and not burden small farmers and homesteaders.
Correction - the premises registration is not mandatory in Texas until 1 July 2006. See link.
Also note that the currently proposed regulation is open for comment through 6 Feb. See link.
Comment Stephen Brown — February 1, 2006 @ 6:25 pm
Thank you. I fixed it. Want to join on as a fact checker? All help is appreciated. 100% accuracy is my goal.
Comment walterj — February 1, 2006 @ 6:48 pm
I grew up on a farm. My parents grew up on a farm (same one for my dad.) My grandparents bought the farm. Now the governors are telling us they are going to start running oar farms? They don’t know how to run the frikin government how do they expect to run a farm. I am going to ask all the candidates for office this year where they stand on NAIS and if they are pro then I’m anti them. I am only voting for canidates taht will stand up for our freedoms.
Comment Apple Sumners — February 20, 2006 @ 11:50 am
Does anyone have any info on the timeline in Arkansas? Any public comment period? The stuff from the Ark. Livestock and Poultry Commission makes it sound like this is already mandantory.
Comment Kay Morrell — April 3, 2006 @ 9:04 pm
dear kay Morrell,
this is sid from arkansas.I am going to little rock on april 20
to present my case to the ag
committee.
they haven’t made a law yet as
far as i know.
as you know the poultry commission tells lies because they like the sound of them.
let me know if you can get to little rock at 10 am on april 20
so far it’s just little ole me..alas i could sure use some company siddartha@care2.com
Comment sid sargent — April 5, 2006 @ 10:21 am
PLEASE! Everyone get involved! I never wanted to be an activist but this is sooo important! Here in Hawaii no one has heard of the NAIS. People don’t believe me when I tell them about this “program”.
I printed out handouts, and posters, bought bumper stickers, magnets and shirts and have tryed to get the word out.
I am a pre-vet student at the UH here and fellow students have begun writing letters to everyone whose address I can come up with.
I passed out handouts at out earth day fair on campus and got to speak with a couple of our local representatives who (of course) hadn’t heard of the NAIS. My husband also is putting up posters at the local feeds and has a stack of hand outs at the medical office he works at. I can olny hope that the ball is rolling here.
Hawaii Island has a huge number of backyard farms and I can only imagine what it would do to our economy and way of life if NAIS were implmented. Shannon
Comment Shannon — April 23, 2006 @ 11:23 pm
Arlene,
Thanks you getting back with me…
I too, have come up against many, many people, of all types, even with animals and birds that will be affected by NAIS, and they “just blow it off.”
Some are so nieve to even think, “chipping” animals is great, because they have been lead to believe the animals, birds, etc. will be returned “home” to their owners when the “chips” are “read” by Our Government!!!
Boy has Uncle Sam, done a good job in propaganda!
Well, when I found out about NAIS, by shear accident, over hearing someone mention the term, I went home, looked it up on the Internet, and just about fell over dead, right there..
I say:
and you can take it to the bank, or not….
God has allowed a “few” of his listener’s (noNAIS’ers) to Awaken to this threat of NAIS.
That’s the best way I can say it….
For the most part, the entire United State’s people are so busy trying to find a way to keep going, because of hard times, that they “don’t even” pay attention, nor do they want to invest any more time, in it’s cause..of FREEDOM!
Also Uncle Sam, the (Nazi-like past returning), have become so entrenched into
“getting away with what they can, and lying to US all”
that it has become “commonplace” and “politically correct” to remain “one of the boys.” (to include those political girls as well, mind you). Hillary Clinton AND Condalesca Rice for 1 and 2..
Look, to put it in a “nutshell” this is BIGGER than politics…
This is Biblical,
End of times scenario beginning to happen in OUR day and age.”
It does not take a “race horse” to figure out that something “BAD”, is just over the horizon, and God help us all, “We the People” had better wake up, and get involved, because, one day, in OUR Lifetime, “WE” are all going to have to make the choice of the “Mark of the Beast.”
And when that day arrives…It is too late to FIGHT! It’s Over!
Choose which side you may, heaven or hell.
I do not even attend church, and I figured it out!
There are but a Few who are called upon, backed up by Angel’s,
that will be asked to go forth and tell the world, what is about to befall them…
“NAIS is Coming.” Paul Revere is:
http://nonais.org/ and instead of a “horse” we are riding the “wave” of the Internet.
NAIS is “one issue” that will effect the outcome, and time table, when the End is Near.
I choose to FIGHT, now, and “believe” this is at the request of a “higher” calling.
There for, I will not be lead astray or stopped in my endeavor of NoNAIS, no matter what the barrier(S) USDA, or people too busy to care, will say or do.
If I and “We” fail, to stop NAIS…No Matter.. I will NOT stop, even then…
I will Never accept the “mark of the beast” to be put on my animals, nor myself.
If that causes me, to “die” for lack of food, or whatever, so be it.
I would rather “DIE, trying” to keep my FREEDOM, I have, and shall retain, rather,
than walk into a “Gas” chamber called NAIS, by the NAZI-like Government, Agri-Biz, Govi-Biz, or the like.
It’s BETTER to Live as a Free Person, and Die “Honorable” to Our God, than to “cow-tow” to mere MAN, who will oppress YOU, your family, and YOUR ANIMALS.
I say: “I am no hero, but by my Faith will I Die, FIGHTING for “my” Freedom, and for that of my “family,” of animals, which,
I LOVE!
I will continue to spread the “word” of NoNAIS, no matter what the obstacle, to include the United States Government,
in which I “served in the U.S. Air Force, with Honor, for 10 years.
Go Forth Good People,
DEAN AYERS
GLENWOOD, IOWA 51534-6218
DeanAFOSI@aol.com
Comment DeanAFOSI (IOWA) — April 24, 2006 @ 5:02 pm
Once you have written as many law makers as you can both state and federal and have alerted your neighbors or anyone you think may get involved,how do I keep this issue alive? Whats next?
Comment sharon mehler — April 29, 2006 @ 5:07 pm
Keep spreading the word to other people, hang posters, contacting the media, another round of letters to lawmakers, keep an eye out for hearings and attend them… It will take ongoing maintenance. There is an upcoming Egg Day, details soon. Some people are also working on state and nationwide protests.
Comment walterj — April 29, 2006 @ 5:24 pm
Everyone, I have been contacting world media, and other countries, media, and providing them with NoNAIS articles, requesting they publish them, to the world…
The Internet, is “We the People’s” last outpost to liberty in this country..
Use it, at God’s Speed!
Iowans_Against_NAIS
Dean A. Ayers
DeanAFOSI@aol.com
Comment DeanAFOSI (IOWA) — April 29, 2006 @ 6:23 pm
Well what I want to know is how this is going to be enforced. You can bet if they even try to enforce it all kinds of taxes are going to go up so they can afford to do it.
You know they don’t care if they ruin the country, they just want to be in control, and in power.
I haven’t seen that writing letters did much of anything in this country as far as stopping things when the government gets really set on something (especially something well funded which NAIS must be or where would it even come from?) Now I don’t know all the facts but I think something more effective needs to happen.
Comment Anna Dunster — June 15, 2006 @ 8:04 pm
hm.
IIRC, stalin, marx, and others such like demanded that animals be registered with the state…thus making livestock liable to government-seizure.
no way; no how.
i have two chickens.
they’re conscientous objectors.
:)
Comment jan — September 20, 2006 @ 9:07 pm
My plan is to just say no to NAIS. I’m not going to play their game. If everyone would take the same stand, their (the NAIS) little house of cards will come tumbling down on them and the problem will go away. Writing letters and such is fine. But nothing will speak louder than ‘in their face’ non-participation in this so-called MANDATORY program. Just stand up and say NO! when the time comes. We’re American’s, aren’t we? Then lets act like it.
Comment Max in Arkansas — August 4, 2007 @ 1:22 pm
Max, I like your plan.
I’d still encourage people to write letters, talk to your
legislators, pin up flyers and generally educate the masses.
However a well aimed cow pie can usually get the point across too, uh or so I’ve heard!
Comment Bob Constantine — August 4, 2007 @ 8:18 pm
Howdy is there any new updates to the timeline that the government plans on implementing this crap? I notice links and comments are a couple of years old. Wondering if things have changed.
Thank you
[See more recent posts. -WJ]
Comment Wendell — February 16, 2009 @ 11:10 pm
Walter,
keep this post up to date as it is one of the fact links in the upper left.
Ryan
Comment Ryan — June 6, 2009 @ 8:13 am
here in wisconsin, a man is being fined for failure to register his premises, and some amish are going to the supreme court for being forced to register, and I think they are going to lose.
I am frightened. we live in a very rural county, yet no one here seems to care. how do you advertise your distaste, talk to people about it etc.. without advertising to the state that you are not registered? again, we are frightened.
Comment amanda — October 29, 2009 @ 10:00 pm
Threaten to move out of the state and tell them why…the
amish will if they get much more of this harrassment! And when the amish leave so will millions of dollars in tourist revenues…this is what will convince WI that NAIS is not the right thing to do…when it hits their pocketbook.
Comment esbee — October 30, 2009 @ 2:48 pm
I’m looking for updated info in 2011 and specific to WA. I’ll be looking into 4-H and things soon anyway, so I might have some info to bring back. The latest I saw was Walter’s post on his blog from Jan 2011 where Obamination (Obama) signed the NAIS in disguise into law under some other act. That kinda freaks me out. I didn’t really like that guy, anyway. I’ll be one of the ones refusing to comply. My kid is 3 years from turning 18, so I can afford to be a little bit more daring. A few years ago I would not, for fear of losing her. Hubby asked me “Well what if they jail you for farming or something else?” I said, “Well, you’d better make sure kiddo gets to school on time, then, and don’t forget to feed the dogs.” Hahahaha. I figure, I’ll get three squares and a free bed. Outside, I have to WORK for those things, imagine that!!!!
What freaks me out is that I have signed up my daughter to do partial public school based from home, and they have the immunization records there you have to fill out. There are a few new shots on there, and it doesn’t “look” like they are required, but how long until they are? One is the flu shot (I don’t believe in it), and the other is the HPV shot that they recommend young girls get in case they are promiscuous and it “decreases their risk of getting cervical cancer”. Here’s a thought… how about NOT being promiscuous? A sure-fire way to not get VD, keep your legs closed. What a novel idea! What creeped me out too, was the religious objection section of the form, that is standard across WA State. When you object to the shots, you sign this canned statement saying you religiously object, blah blah blah… But then you put the religious church or organization you attend. Now THAT freaks me out. Why would I be forced to reveal that information and make my friends a target? Not gonna do it. Anyways, these are the things that Child Protective Services can just arbritrarily, without a trial, without legal representation, without a search warrant, come and take your child for and you will NEVER get them back unless they decided they want to give them back. Scary, huh?
Comment P L — December 7, 2011 @ 2:36 am