There are several bills currently under discussion in the Missouri legislature which would prohibit participation in the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) mandated by the USDA. Implementing NAIS would be crippling to many small and family farm operations, so we strongly support these bills. This article provides background on the issues, discusses the proposed legislation and summarizes our recent conversation with our district representative, Don Ruzicka. [Updated]
My quest started innocently enough last summer when we'd had a better week at market than usual, and I ordered some cotton off eBay to play with. The cotton I received was an upland variety, and because of the short fibers (@ 3/4"), I had to really loosen the tension on my wheel to the point that it was barely winding the yarn onto the bobbin. It wasn't a bad fiber to spin, very soft, but it was very frustrating because of the short fiber.
