stimulus & livestock inspections
Stimulus & Livestock Inspections plus Food Forethought. I’m Greg Martin with today’s Northwest Report.
OBAMA: We have begun the essential work of keeping the American dream alive in our time and that’s why we are here today.
President Obama as he was getting ready to sign the stimulus package yesterday afternoon.
OBAMA: Today does mark the beginning of the end. The beginning of what we need to do to create jobs for American’s scrambling in the wake of layoffs. The beginning of what we need to do to provide relief for families worried that they won’t be able to pay next months bills. The beginning of the first steps to set our economy on a firmer foundation, paving the way to long term growth and prosperity.
There are those that still disagree with spending billions of dollars that will just deepen the national debt. Time will tell.
The Food Safety and Inspection Service has issued a directive that gives staff involved in performing comprehensive reviews of State Cooperative Meat or Poultry Inspection programs with the methodology and guiding principles for use in these reviews. FSIS says the purpose of these reviews is to determine whether a State has developed and is maintaining a meat or poultry inspection program that imposes requirements – at least equal to – those imposed by FSIS under Federal Regulations.
Now with today’s Food Forethought, here’s Lacy Gray.
Who would have thought that the term “squatter’s rights” would still hold relevance today? Like most people I thought that “squatter’s rights” became obsolete near the end of the land rush period. Seems like that’s a big misconception for a lot of people. Quite surprisingly, in certain situations, someone can occupy your land and acquire legal ownership of it. The legal term for acquiring land ownership in this way is “adverse possession”; in normal speak, “squatter’s rights”. A trespasser who tends to the upkeep and care of the land over an extended period of time, and by all outward appearances seems to be the rightful owner will have legal recourse to that land’s ownership. So, if you haven’t visited the “north forty” in a while you might want to meander around your property. Hopefully you won’t have any unwanted surprises. If you do, firmly but calmly lay claim to your property. And, if you haven’t already, consider fencing, you know what they say; fences can make the best neighbors.
Thanks Lacy. That’s today’s Northwest Report. I’m Greg Martin on the Northwest Ag Information Network.
