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Armistead also recognized the value of two fairly new marketing programs. The VCA “purple tag” program identifies cattle that have been raised under controlled conditions and meet specific medical and management requirements. For example, no shots may be given in the animals’ hips or hindquarters because they scar the muscle. All animals must be preconditioned so that they will eat out of a trough, and all sires have to meet certain Expected Progeny Differences (EPDs) for weaning and yearling weights. Because Armistead uses Ginger Hill bulls and other prominent studs through the Angus AI program, all Flying A herdsires qualify. A veterinarian or extension agent must certify the animals and there is a small fee required to purchase the tag itself.
Prior to the sale, the stockyard and the VCA prominently
Commonwealth Transportation Board that in years past, when U.S. 17 was closed between 1-66 and the Tbwn of Warren ton, we had a three-fold increase in tractor-trailer traffic on U.S. 522 in Rappahannock County,” said McCarty. ‘This resulted in a substantial number of accidents, and major conflicts in the village of Flint Hill. A lessening of Fauquier’s problems by increasing ours is no solution.”
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