When you say you are going to do something, you get it done. I committed myself to filling them all. I didn't quite make it.

[Two hundred carcasses hanging in cold storage at Ranchland Meats in Butte, Mont., have been impounded by FSIS Circuit Supervisor Dr. Jeffrey Legg. Many of those carcasses were 4-H market animal projects exhibited and sold at the local county fair. Other plants located in Beaverhead County, Columbus, Mont., and Missoula, Mont., have also been targeted by FSIS.] I am very concerned about the actions of USDA to close beef processing plants in Montana, ... The timing of this action is disturbing. We hope USDA is not taking this action in retribution for MCA, R-CALF USA and Governor Schweitzer's recent actions to protect the Montana cow herd from Canadian bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). Governor Schweitzer purchased a 4-H pig during the Lewis and Clark County Fair, and that carcass is hanging at the Butte plant targeted for closure by USDA.

There's no way to find out when it started. Years ago, nobody thought anything about it.

One of our members actually coaches the team, so we're going to buy their uniforms and help them all we can.

The antagonism is pretty much a thing of history.

If we feel that something's not right, we'll test it again ourselves, ... And we've never had to call an ambulance.