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Berkshire Beef Group Beats USDA in Tracking Animals

By Kelly Wilkinson

Richmond, MA – A Berkshire County-based livestock group is ahead of the US Department of Agriculture in developing a tracking system for their cattle. The push to create such a program at the federal level was intensified after an outbreak of mad cow disease...but the system is still in the process of being developed. WAMC's Kelly Wilkinson has the update.