The USDA announced $33 million allocated specifically for the development of a livestock tracking system. This falls well short of the estimated $600 million the industry believes the system will cost to develop and deploy. While the private sector will contribute to the project, industry leaders voiced their dissapointment with the shortfall. The budget has […]

USDA seeks cash for cow tracking “Creation of a national livestock identification program to help guarantee food safety is by no means ensured until money can be found to pay for it, Agriculture Department officials said today.” The USDA’s ambitious livestock plans may be delayed by a lack of funding but ultimately will be a […]

BVE, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, is also known as Mad Cow. News-Leader.com | True Ozarks | Ozarks farmers brace for costly mad cow rules “The USDA’s taken so-called “downer” cows — cows that cannot walk on their own because of illness or injury — out of the human food chain. … “There’s no question about it, […]

Mad cow scare could spur tracking system “If there’s a bright side to the U.S. mad cow scare, it’s that it could speed the nation’s move to a centralized system that electronically tracks animals as they move from fields to feedlots to food stores.” RFID News agrees. While livestock disease has no “bright side,” a […]

Forbes.com: U.S. livestock tracking system may begin mid-2004 “U.S. farmers and ranchers will take the first step toward a nationwide animal tracking system in mid-2004, a program intended to swiftly pinpoint the history of livestock suspected of mad cow disease or other dangerous diseases, program developers said on Monday.” This program, featured in RFID News […]

Yahoo! News – Plan to Track Diseased Cattle Intensifies “Efforts to develop high-tech versions of the branding iron to track cattle from ranch to dinner table are expected to take on more urgency now that a suspected case of mad cow disease has been found in the United States. … The task force has explored […]

U.S. Discovers Its First Suspected Case of Mad Cow Disease “McDonald’s and Wal-Mart Stores quickly said they did not believe they had received meat from the animal. And almost as soon as Ms. Veneman finished her news conference, officials of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association began a conference call to seek to reassure consumers. Terry […]

Advanced ID Corporation has teamed up with Applied Wireless Identifications (AWID) to produce and market RFID readers for Advanced ID’s field tests in Taiwan, where some 32,000 readers are expected to be needed to support the country’s hog industry. Advanced ID has made good use of AWID’s expertise to jointly develop an RFID (radio frequency […]

Iowa Farm Bureau Spokesman Online “The U.S. livestock industry is moving forward with plans to create a national animal identification system (ID) that can track livestock movements from birth to slaughter, a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) official said last week.” The program will be a phased effort, starting with assigning unique IDs to livestock […]

Beef processing tag test works for Excel – 2003-09-15 – Wichita Business Journal “Wichita-based Excel Corp., a processor of beef and pork, and Advanced ID have completed a successful field test of a new radio frequency identification tags and readers at one of Canada’s largest beef processing plants. The test was conducted at a beef […]