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Not That Complicated
When you have 60,000 head of cattle spread across hundreds of square miles of tough, South Texas range, a national plan to individually ID every animal...
2006 RFID Supplier Survey
BEEF magazine and Kansas State University (KSU) teamed up three years ago to present the first survey of firms offering radio-frequency ID (RFID) technology...
Gotcha!
Folks still chuckle over the old story about the rancher showing his unwitting banker the same set of cows repeatedly moved from one location to another...
Buying ID Software
How a national livestock ID and traceback system will impact each production segment varies. For cow-calf producers, compliance could involve little more...
Market Demands Some ID Today
National ID Is Dead
Wisconsin Rolls Out Voluntary Animal ID Cost Sharing
Total U.S. Premises Count Reduced To 1.4 Million
National ID Is Operating In Two Different Spheres
Protecting What's Yours
USAHA Calls For Mandatory National ID
The Murky Murk
They came. They saw. They left. Participants at the ID Info/Expo in August the defacto national forum for developing and advancing a standardized national...
It's time for ID
What we really need and what we're trying to do is protect the livestock assets of this country, says Bret Marsh, Indiana state veterinarian and president...
National ID Process Remains Muddled
Serious Questions About National ID
Willing & Waiting
Sit in an industry meeting long enough, or leaf through an issue of most any beef publication, and you'd think demand for documented verification of such...
Swine ID consensus
The Canadian Pork Council, the Mexican Pork Association and the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) have agreed that swine health and the ability to...
Groups Forge North American Swine ID System
Michigan Plans ID Workshop Series For Producers
House Members Pressure USDA For NAIS Detail
Michigan Mandates Individual EID To Begin In 2007
There's No Need For Mandatory National ID
Did Troy Flip Flop On National ID ?
USDA finally draws its ID line
It's come to this apparently and maybe. The National Animal Identification System (NAIS) will become mandatory in early 2009 unless 100% of livestock...
Animal ID Education
From Our Columnists
Top 5 moves for getting out of the hay-feeding rut
Whether you're out feeding in the cold or just looking out your window at cows eating hay at a cost of $2/cow/day, it should be a wake-up call for all of us...
Buy/sell margins - part III
The feeder-cattle futures market is being whipsawed by corn futures prices. Corn futures prices were in the mid-to-high $3 range early in 2007...
Planning for successful breeding
What tasks need to be done to help assure a successful breeding season this year? Let’s start with the bulls. Nationally, about 10% of all bulls fail...
