RFID Can Reduce Labor Costs

Chuck ZimmermanAnimal Health, Animal ID, Audio, Dairy Business, General, NIAA

Steven Smith with DHI-Provo demonstrated how the Pocket DHI-Plus works with RFID through a video that showed a dairy producer walking alongside his animals and scanning them. As he did that, you could hear what he was hearing in his ear piece, whether to skip the animal, whether it needed to be preg-checked, or was due for injections, or whatever … Read More

Holstein Champions Mandatory ID

News EditorAnimal ID, Holstein Association, Industry News

The Holstein Association USA wants to remind the dairy industry that a mandatory national animal identification system is still needed in this country. With the recent reoccurrence of foot and mouth disease (FMD) in Great Britain, Holstein Association USA CEO John Meyer says it’s another reminder of the need for a mandatory national animal identification system in the United States. … Read More

IDairy Announces Partnership with USDA

News EditorAnimal ID, Government, Industry News

IDairy, a consortium of dairy cattle associations formed in 2005 to promote NAIS in the dairy industry, announced today a partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to facilitate the registration of dairy farm, dairy calf and heifer grower premises as part of the National Animal Identification System (NAIS). IDairy members include National Milk Producers Federation, American Jersey Cattle … Read More

Secretary Johann Visits Vance

News EditorAnimal ID, Government, Industry News

On Tuesday, March 20th, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns visited the offices of Vance Publishing in Lenexa, Kan. and conducted a news conference with Food360 editors. Johanns addressed several topics, including animal identification, the 2007 Farm Bill and immigration. To read all of Secretary Johanns comments, click here. The Secretary told Food360 editors he favors a market-driven, voluntary animal-identification system, … Read More

National Animal ID Documents Available for Review

News EditorAnimal ID, Government

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced the availability of three National Animal Identification System documents for review and public comment. “NAIS is a true partnership among states, industry, and USDA, and by working together, we have met our goal of having twenty-five percent of the Nation’s premises registered by the end of January. However, we continue to seek … Read More

Chipless RFID

News EditorAnimal ID, Research

This is exciting news in the identification realm. Somark Innovations has announced an ID system based on a biocompatible ink with chipless RFID functionality. Somark is proud to announce the successful testing of Biocompatible Chipless RFID1 Ink in cattle and laboratory rats. The test proved the efficacy of injecting and reading a Biocompatible Chipless RFID Ink “tattoo” within the skin … Read More

Against NAIS

Chuck ZimmermanAnimal ID

No NAIS.orgI’ve mentioned Google news alerts before. They’re handy and you get some interesting results. Like this morning when I checked and found a link to a post done by a lady who calls herself the Henwhisperer. She is dedicated to the defeat of the NAIS (National Animal Identification System).