ALLIANCE, Neb. – The Nebraska Brand Committee board of directors voted 3-0 to approve a 10 percent cost of living allowance increase for committee employees during a Tuesday, June 14 special telephone meeting. The pay…
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LINCOLN, Neb. – A bill containing major reforms to the Nebraska Livestock Brand Act, including allowing the Nebraska Brand Committee to develop and adopt procedures for non-visual identification and electronic “e-inspection” in place of a…
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LINCOLN, Neb. Three bills related to Nebraska’s brand law are set to be heard by the Legislature’s Agriculture Committee on the afternoon of Feb. 9. Because of COVID restrictions, testimony on the bills can be offered in several ways, (see the end of the article for details).
Two of the bills, LB 571 and LB 572 were introduced by Sen. Steve Halloran, who chairs the legislature’s agriculture committee. His legislation comes on the heels of the impasse with the two brand bills heard by his committee last spring.
With that experience fresh in his mind, Halloran hosted the LR 378 interim study and invited industry stakeholders to weigh in over the course of four meetings last fall. Halloran’s intention behind LR 378 was reaching a consensus with the stakeholders, which could provide solutions to the litigation and legislation that’s been directed at the Nebraska Brand Committee in recent years. Halloran’s bills are, in-part, a product of those meetings
LINCOLN, Neb. Three bills related to Nebraska’s brand law are set to be heard by the legislature’s Agriculture Committee on the afternoon of Feb. 9. Because of COVID restrictions, testimony on the bills can…