I'm surely no know it all but I've always said in these forums that we need legal action ! If we continue to simply try and negotiate the rulings and laws put upon us which get worst and worst and harder and harder to follow we're doomed because we're always loosing ground . I know most of the better deer farmers who are selling breeding stock and are making a profit will disagree with me but if we don't or can't prove our case in court we'll be soon out of business and no one will be around to buy those better high end deer other than the breeders simply swapping deer with each other if that will even be allowed . I'm a little guy here in this cervid industry but I feel even I should have the right to enjoy raising a few deer and elk if thats what I choose to do on my land on my farm ! I'm sick of loosing ground and being told there are newer stricker laws year after year after year . Heck I can't even really quit , knowing if I do I'll either have to pretty much give away most of the doe's and even pay to butcher some as well with a $120.00 CWD test required to do so . My farm friends that raise cattle never believe me when I tell them I MUST test and pay $120.00 to butcher and eat my own deer ! They think I'm nuts and B.S.ing them all the time , thats how crazy this stuff has gotten. I just think a court of law has to see we're being forced out of business and forced into crazy unjust rulings we can barely afford to follow just in the name of politics . I'd like to be allowed to make a bit of a profit for my labor but by the time we pay testing fee's , inspection fee's , grain fee's , licence fee's and supplies there's not much left. Then it's use this ear tag , then that ear tag , then oh no an electronic tag , then a chip to ship one . My goodness where's the end here ? How and WHY have we allowed ourselves to become this way ? WHY ?? Ya I'm frustrated , aren't the rest of you ? Something has to give here we need a different avenue of defense !
