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ND Cattle Feeder Wants to Open Feedot for Culled Canadian Cows


BISMARCK, N.D. - North Dakota may soon be getting its first restricted feedlot if the State Board of Animal Health agrees to the proposal.

Korby Kost, a livestock feeder north of Carrington, wants to import 2-to-5 year old culled open cows from Canada, custom finish them for 100 to 150 days and send them straight to slaughter in St. Paul, Minn.

Kost has renovated an old feedlot at the site two miles north of Carrington, updating the feeding facility to be completely self-contained, and with its own lagoon. It is fenced on all four sides and at least 2,000 feet away from his other cattle.

“It is pretty much out there by itself (the feedlot),” Kost told board members during a meeting last week on conference call. He said the facility was designed by an engineer and has been inspected by the State Department of Health. He also worked with federal officials to bring the feedlot up to federal as well as state standards.

Kost is asking the board for a permit to exempt him from TB and brucellosis testing when the cows come into North Dakota. He is also asking for an exemption of the requirement that cows are Officially Calfhood Vaccinated (OCV) for brucellosis.

The cattle will all be branded with the CAN brand to designate them as Canadian origin, be officially tagged, and have the proper health paperwork for inspection at the border.

They will not commingle with any U.S. cattle and will be transported from their original ranches in Saskatchewan and Alberta straight to the restricted feedlot, he said.

Kost added he has been working with the same Canadian livestock producers for the past 10 years.

“They have some excellent cattle coming out of that region,” he said, adding that other producers in South Dakota have said some good things about the cattle.

Kost is not planning on feeding North Dakota cattle, so there would be no chance of mixing U.S. and Canadian cattle.

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