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Wisconsin’s mandatory livestock premises identification program is facing financial hardship.  Wisconsin Livestock Identification Consortium President Keith York tells Brownfield they can’t presently charge fees, and federal funds have dried up.  “Our projections are in a year from June, we will run out of money, so we need to find more funding in some way or form before next year.”

The consortium gets 250-thousand dollars a year from the State of Wisconsin, but York says annual costs are about 450-thousand. 

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