The new regulations give options to producers to choose the method of ID, and flexibility to the states to make their system permissible, as long as it’s an agreed form by the shipping state and the receiving state.

In an online poll at www.progressivecattle.com just more than 62 percent of respondents said the new rules are “too tight. Federal agencies created laws that were excessive and unnecessary.”

Another 23 percent said the traceability rules amounted to “a good compromise. Officials took the necessary time to get it right.”

Another 14 percent said the new rules were “not stringent enough. Traceability laws still need to be tougher across the U.S.”

In the newest online poll, weigh in on high beef prices for 2013 and the impact they could have on consumer demand.