Although I find it a little disconcerting to read that the listening sessions are for ..

APHIS seeks to gather not only producer comments and concerns, but also potential or feasible solutions to create a program producers can feel comfortable supporting. The listening sessions will include information about the current program, as well as providing an opportunity to give public testimony or ask program-related questions. Discussion sessions related to NAIS' cost, impact on small farmers, privacy and confidentiality, liability premises registration, animal identification and animal tracing will allow producers to provide their input on ways to make the program into something they all can support.

Guess what! I don't support NAIS. Period. So it isn't, I hope, a matter of trying to shmooze me and others into having our say and letting a little steam out and then happily going along with the National Animal ID System. PFFFFTTT. I don't know the place and time yet but this is apparenlty where the link will be.

Update: I am putting up video of the NAIS session here, on Youtube. Will be adding video over the next couple of days.