North Dakota Department of Agriculture
Board denies request for Canadian cattle import exemptions
BISMARCK, N.D. - The North Dakota State Board of Animal Health has turned down a request to allow Canadian cattle to enter the state without testing.
Meeting Thursday in Bismarck, the board voted unanimously to deny a request by Korbyn Kost of Carrington, to exempt cattle he wants to import from Canada from the state's tuberculosis and brucellosis testing and brucellosis vaccination requirements.
Kost operates a feedlot near Carrington.
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Shawn Schafer, Turtle Lake, who represents the non-traditional livestock industry on the nine-member board, moved to deny the request. Melvin Leland, Sydney, Mont., who represents purebred cattle, seconded the motion.
