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Beef Association of North Dakota. "They have the same genetics and quality of beef that we have. Canada should be wrapping themselves around country of origin and wanting to distinguish themselves separate from Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Australia."
• A half dozen national meat groups expressed their concern about the trade threats in a Jan. 27 letter to the ranking members on the House and Senate agriculture committees.
• The American Meat Institute, the National Catttleman's Beef Association, the National Chicken Council, the National Pork Producers Council, the National Turkey Federation and the North American Meat Association said they offered many solutions and all were rejected. The groups say the sorting requirements add too many costs for meatpackers.
• "This retaliation will be crippling to our industries and threaten the long-term relationship with two of our most important export markets," the groups wrote. "COOL is a broken program that has only added costs to our industries without any measurable benefit for America's livestock producers."
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Some legislators take sudden route to Pierre
NORA HERTEL, Associated Press
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Most South Dakota legislators have months to prepare for the upcoming session. Then there's Sen. Alan Solano -- who got all of one day.
• Solano, a Republican from Rapid City, was tapped by Gov. Dennis Daugaard on Jan. 13 to fill a vacancy created when Sen. Stan Adelstein resigned for health reasons. The session started the next day, and it's been a scramble since then for Solano, who has done his best to focus on his role as a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
• "With such a late appointment, it's really difficult to get bills organized," Solano said.
• Solano is one of five people to make their way to the South Dakota Legislature in the past year by appointment, rather than election. Besides Adelstein, two lawmakers resigned to take new jobs, one left to go to law school and one moved.
• But Solano and other appointees said they had planned to run for elected office -- someday.
• David Anderson, R-Hudson, was chosen in May to fill a House seat. Anderson's Capitol experience includes lobbying for the farm mutual insurance industry
• "My dad was a legislator for 10 years in the '70s so I kind of grew up with it," said (Continued on page 20)
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