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Breeder accused of selling impure semen from bogus Beefmaster bull By WES FERGUSON Thursday, March 17, 2005 A Laneville woman says the president of Beefmaster Breeders United is selling semen from an impure Beefmaster bull, tainting the bloodline that she and others have spent a fortune trying to perfect. Charlotte Bryan and her attorney say genetic testing has proven something that was long suspected – Soul Man, the Beefmaster sire, is half black Angus. Bryan, a Rusk County rancher with more than 200 head of cattle, and fellow plaintiff Bryan Hugh Chapman of Rockport have filed a federal lawsuit seeking...

Posted on Fri, Feb. 18, 2005 South Dakota semen tax on its way out JOE KAFKA Associated Press PIERRE, S.D. - South Dakota may be the only place in the nation that taxes livestock semen, but possibly not for much longer. Despite pleas that eliminating the sales tax on cattle and hog semen could start to unravel a decade-old program that provides property-tax relief, the state Senate passed a bill 20-13 Friday that would end the tax. Sen. Kenny McNenny, a Republican rancher from Sturgis, urged repeal, saying he doesn't believe any other state taxes semen. The tax should be...