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Animal ID - NAIS
NAIS Put Down in Favor of Stae-led Animal ID and Traceability Prgram in the U.S.
USDA has ended its National Animal Identification System (NAIS) in favor of developing a new, flexible framework for animal disease traceability in the U.S....
U.S. Weighs How to Track Diseased Livestock
The meat industry is up in arms over a federal decision to abandon a $120 million livestock-tracking system designed to limit the economic and human-health impact of animal-disease outbreaks....
Why COOL (country of origin labeling but), not NAIS (national animal ID)?
Nothing in my 23 years of writing about the industry has perplexed me more than the implementation of mandatory country of origin labeling (MCOOL) but...
2010 RFID Survey
BEEF magazine is again proud to team up with Kansas State University (KSU) to deliver the industry's most complete survey of firms offering radio-frequency...
Which Way to Traceability?
It's late at night and a visitor stops at a flashing yellow light of a rural intersection. With some uncertainty, the visitor peers over the steering...
ID The Opportunity
We've received premiums for our cattle every year we've used electronic ID (EID) tags, says Roger Koberstein of Koberstein Farms at Holyoke, CO. In fact,...
How Private?
No one wants anyone, least of all the government, poking around in their business. That's one reason even producers who support the National Animal Identification...
Tracking failure
Hard to believe six years have passed since the cow bearing BSE stole Christmas in the U.S. Harder to believe there's still no cattle and beef industry...
Congress Gives Less To National Animal ID
A conference committee in Congress has decided to fund the controversial National Animal Identification System for another year to the tune of $5.3 million....
NAIS suit
U.S. District Judge Rosemary M. Collyer in Washington, D.C., dismissed a civil suit filed by the Farm-To-Consumer Legal Defense Fund and a group of Michigan cattlemen against USDA and the Michigan Department of Agriculture (MDA) over the National Animal Identification System (NAIS)...
ID tracing
Korea and ID Following the imposition of a beef tracing system for domestically produced beef that became effective June 22, South Korea says it intends...
Put up or shut up
The U.S. beef cattle and livestock industries need standardized national animal identification. Forget the emotion and misinformation surrounding USDA's...
What’s A Feed Tag Telling You?
When looking at a feed tag, there is some information that is mandated by law that the feed manufacturer has to provide on a feed tag. ...
Adding Value Still Pays
Cow-calf producers can be more than price takers. That's true even as currently tight cattle numbers lift the price floor, while anemic beef demand squeezes...
Federal livestock-ID Proposal Riles Producers
How deeply do you care where that hamburger was before it reached your plate? ...
Team Studies Effects of NAIS on Livestock Industry
If the U.S. beef industry could return to the level of beef exports that were in place before 2003, the proposed animal identification system could be fully paid for. ...
Cattle Ranchers Speak Out Against NAIS
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is holding what it calls listening hearings on a proposed animal identification system. ...
USDA Launches NAIS Feedback
In an effort to facilitate the dialog regarding the National Animal Identification System (NAIS), USDA has launched a feedback page on the NAIS website...
Vets support NAIS
Making the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) mandatory would allow for the quick control of diseases entering the food supply, W. Ron DeHaven,...
USDA opens to input on livestock ID system
A controversial federal plan to track livestock from birth to butcher shop needs more input from the people it intends to regulate, new U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said. ...
AVMA Urges Congress To Adopt Mandatory NAIS
Making the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) mandatory would allow for the quick control of diseases entering the food supply...
USDA Requests Comments on Proposed NAIS Rules
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) recently released a proposed rule regarding official animal identification (ID) numbering systems. ...
Calls for Obama to Stop US Animal Identification Rule
The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund called on the new administration to permanently halt a U.S. Department of Agriculture proposed rule that would effectively mandate the implementation of the first two stages of the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) for thousands of Americans. ...
2009 RFID Survey
BEEF magazine is again proud to team up with Kansas State University (KSU) to deliver the industry's most complete survey of firms offering radio-frequency...
Mexican cattlemen launch ID system
The Union Ganadera Regional de Chihuahua (UGRCH), or the Chihuahua Cattlemen's Association, recently embarked on an aggressive, Internet-based cattle...
From Our Columnists
Tracking failure
"Hard to believe six years have passed since the cow bearing BSE stole Christmas in the U.S. Harder to believe there's still no cattle and beef industry...
The next decade: Part I
I truly believe ranching in the next decade will not be "business as usual." Thus, my next few columns will look to stimulate ranchers'...
No Silver Bullet
I think I can speak for all the “Vet's Opinion” authors in saying that we enjoy feedback on our columns, particularly when a correspondent gives...
