My View From The Country  Colorado State Fair Fiasco Tops This
Week's Bloopers  I've heard it said many times that the problem
with any youth program is the parents. To that we might add:
"and those who are in charge of enforcing the rules but refuse
to do it."  The controversy this year going into the Colorado
State Fair (CSF) was that the 4-H and FFA programs were
requiring all livestock entries to have a premise ID. This was
quite possibly the most publicized CSF rule ever due to the
controversy that accompanied its implementation.  Those opposed
to national ID capitalized on it as their rallying cry,
instituting public-relations and protest campaigns at quite a
few of the county fairs. Incidentally, the rule was implemented
at the behest of several of the state's largest cattlemen's
groups as a proactive step in protecting the health of Colorado
livestock.  The rule required all 4-H livestock projects in the
state to have a premises ID for the 2007-2008 calendar year, but
two animals that had qualified fo