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DID YOU KNOW?
How the word ‘buffalo’ came into use. To the Spanish explorers the animal was called cibola or cubola. Some Spanish writers called them bisonte. Others called them armenta. Early French called them le boeuf buffe, vache sauvage or Bison d’ Amerique. Canadian voyagers called them boeuf (ox or bullock) The later French called them bufflo and later still buffelo. English colonist were using the term “buffalo” around 1710 and it 1st appeared in print around 1754.
Peter Kalm, who traveled through America in 1749, spoke of them as “wilde ochsen” but the word buffalo first spelled buffels soon replaced these earlier names.
The difference between ‘buffalo’ and ‘bison’. There is none, the difference comes from the people who use the words. Buffalo is the common name and Bison is technically, the correct usage.
Elizabethville Echo
Elizabethville, Pennsylvania 26 Apr 1928
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Neil Fischer didn't set out to be a bison rancher. It wasn't until his daughters wanted horses that he started looking for a home with some space for ... |
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Her fascination with the living bison doesn't prevent her from enjoying the meat, she added. Eating bison is a much more sustainable option than beef. |
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MONTANA
A Place for Bison in Montana Cattle Country
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From the beginning, the Skoglunds knew they wanted to create a sustainable ranch that benefited not only their family, but the bison and the surrounding ecosystem as well.
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WASHINGTON
Nash’s Farm Store, 4681 Sequim-Dungeness Way, hosts two free upcoming presentations.
From 4:30-5:30 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 23, Holly and Tom Clark of Clark Farms give a presentation about their sustainable farming practices raising cattle, pigs, bison and other species for meat at Nash’s Farm Store.
The talks are part of a series of agriculture-related events at Nash’s Farm Store in celebration of Harvest Week 2019.
For more information, see www.nashsorganicproduce.com/events.html, call 360-681-6274 or email to patty@nashsorganicproduce.com.
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NEBRASKA
Groups Call For Stop To Nebraska Livestock Farms
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Groups petition to stop large livestock operations in Nebraska. ... Hear reaction from the Nebraska Farm Bureau this morning at 12:30 pm ET on ..... storied bison herds but pledged to consider more help for two other species — a tiny, ... |
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Don’t take your buffalo to town, son
Dad and Mom arrived in Minnesota in 1946 and met Horace Neely, who told my father, “Go east young man.” So Dad bought a farm east of town.
Years later, the charger in the barn on that farm was blinking unhappily. There was a problem with the electric fence. It needed to be checked. That was an opportunity for me to walk the fence and get in my steps without knowing about getting in my steps.
The cows had breached the electric fence. They were out. How did they know the fence wasn’t working? Could their ears detect it? Was there one cow, I’ll call her Cora, who was designated to test an electric wire each day to see if it were operating? Perhaps she touched it with her tail and if she didn’t get zapped, the herd knew they could overpower the unarmed fence. Cora had a responsible position that could result in future leadership roles.
I thought of that when a neighbor called to report escaped humongous herbivores. One American bison was rumored to have hoofed it to town. I imagined a resident of that fine city watching the movie “Dances With Wolves” and looking up from the TV to see a buffalo in the yard without Kevin Costner.
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Archaeological
Why are fossils more often male?
Cosmos
When you dig up an ancient bison leg, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the odds of it being a bull versus cow leg were roughly equal. But you'd be ... |
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Ecological
Saving America's Great Southern Grasslands
The Chattanoogan
... Interior Grasslands region, which includes the Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia and Alabama." ... By the early 1800s, the bison and elk were a distant memory, but wildfires still burned across parts of the ... |
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Yellowstone
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service also will consider more protection for the Mojave poppy bee of Nevada. Officials rejected petitions to protect Yellowstone National Park’s bison herds.
Wildlife advocates have campaigned for decades to halt the routine slaughter of bison migrating out of Yellowstone to reach their winter grazing grounds in Montana. The burly animals, also known as buffalo, once numbered in the tens of millions before overhunting reduced them to just a few small herds. Officials say the numbers now are stable.
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Support the NBA’s Blockchain Transparency and Traceability Program with Tag Purchases
It’s getting close to that time of year. It's time to work the herd!
As you prepare to work your animals this year, don’t forget about the NBA’s traceability and transparency initiatives. In order to participate, you will need to tag your animals with USDA approved 840 EID tags.
By tagging with official 840 tags, you can not only become compliant with upcoming USDA regulations, you will be able to register the tag numbers in our new blockchain-based data system. This data will be used for upcoming NBA transparency projects and partnerships in an effort to show the consumer “where your food comes from”.
We’ve made it easy to buy 840 tags and supplies by offering them directly on the NBA website's tag store. You can purchase tags, applicators, readers, and other supplies necessary to tag your animals. Special prices have been negotiated on behalf of the NBA and a portion of the proceeds go the NBA to help subsidize programs.
If you have any questions about tagging or the program, please feel free to contact Gregg Barfield at gregg.barfield@ledgerspace.net.
For Immediate Release: Further Information:
September 16, 2019 Dave Carter david@bisoncentral.com
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Hoeven, Bennet Introduce Bill to Stop Deceptively Labeled Water Buffalo Products
Bill Aims to Halt Water Buffalo Being Marketed to Mimic Bison
WASHINGTON, D.C. (September 16, 2019) - U.S. Sens. John Hoeven (R-ND) and Michael Bennet, along with Mike Braun (R-IN) and Tina Smith (D-MN), today introduced the Truth in Buffalo Labeling Act, which will provide the U.S. Food and Drug Administration with clear authority to stop water buffalo meat and ingredients from being marketed only as "buffalo" in the U.S. marketplace.
The National Bison Association worked with Senators Hoeven and Bennet to develop the legislation after deceptively labeled water buffalo meat and pet food ingredients started entering the U.S. marketplace three years ago, creating confusion for consumers.
If enacted, the bill will require any water buffalo meat or ingredients marketed in the United States to be labeled as "water buffalo" and not just as "buffalo."
"We are extremely grateful to Senators Hoeven, Bennet and their colleagues who are standing up for the bison ranchers, and for the customers who are looking to buy sustainably raised North American bison products," said Dave Carter, executive director of the National Bison Association. "We have worked hard to build a relationship of trust with our customers. This bill helps us maintain that trust."
The legislation will be assigned to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee.
The Truth in Buffalo Labeling bill has been endorsed by the InterTribal Buffalo Council, the American Farm Bureau Federation, the National Farmers Union, R-CALF USA, the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, and several regional agricultural organizations.
Similar legislation is being developed in the House of Representatives.
A delegation of 25 bison ranchers and marketers will be in Washington, D.C. Sept. 17-20 to urge passage of the legislation.
The Weekly Update is a service designed to provide National Bison Association members with news and information affecting bison production and marketing. Many items in the Weekly Update are reprinted from outside sources. The content of those articles does not necessarily reflect the policy position of the National Bison Association, and are reproduced here only as a means to keep our membership informed as much as possible on all information and opinions relating to bison that is circulating publicly.
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