Why is traceability important?
Traceability schemes are now common in many countries around the world, as regulators seek to manage biosecurity and food safety risks. Farmers who provide traceability from pasture to plate are not only helping increase consumer confidence in the safety of livestock products but are also maximizing their own profitability.
What is Electronic Identification (EID)?
Electronic Identification (EID) is now an essential tool for all livestock farmers for meeting traceability requirements and delivering consumer confidence. An EID tag, containing a unique number, is inserted into the ear of the animal. The tag is read as the animal moves through different farms, sale yards and eventually to a processor, and it cannot be tampered with or changed. EID is a simple way of recording and managing animals as individuals when used as part of an animal management system.
New EID regulations
From November 5 2024 new EID regulations require all cattle moving across state lines in the United States to be electronically tagged. The regulations apply only to the interstate movement of cattle, including dairy, rodeo, and exhibition cattle. Exceptions include feeder calves and sexually intact cattle (and bison) under 18 months of age.
The system is designed to enhance traceability, improve disease control, and streamline management practices.
The goal of these regulations is to ensure a more robust and reliable tracking system for livestock. Using electronic tags can help ranchers monitor the health, movement and history of their livestock easily. This not only helps in quick identification and isolation of disease outbreaks but also enhances overall herd management.
Make traceability an investment
Combining EID with a weighing system to fully automate animal management and handling tasks, saving time and money. It's just one way market leading farmers manage their businesses more profitably.
There are different options available depending on your preference for capturing ID, and your farming setup/operation, including both portable and permanent systems. These systems include:
The Gallagher Hand Held EID tag readers are lightweight, hardwearing and easy to use - perfect for on-the-go use at different sites. These readers enable animal data to be read, recorded, and collected anywhere on the farm.
The Gallagher Hands Free EID tag readers comprise an antenna panel and moveable electronic controller. They are fixed in place, usually on a chute or at a location in a alleyway, for hands free, automated reading of EID tags.
View and track livestock performance
Our new Animal Performance App completes our Weighing and EID ecosystem and allows you to view and track livestock performance anywhere at any time, on multiple devices.
It’s an easy way to give you a complete picture of your animals' health, by tracking animal weight gain, general health and wellbeing, and animal location at any point in time.
With our EID system used alongside the App, each time new information is recorded, it's saved against that EID number, building up a history of animal performance and any relevant events that occur throughout the animal’s lifetime
While traceability regulations may differ from country to country, the benefits and ease of Gallagher’s EID systems are clear, making it easier to manage livestock from pasture to plate, and maximize profitability for the farm.
Learn how Brinkley Angus uses Gallagher's TW3 scale head and
HR5 EID reader to easily track and share animal performance data
Gallagher Solutions
Gallagher offers a range of electronic ID tag reading equipment, ranging from products enabling simple compliance, through to a more complete weighing & EID system that enables a significant return for the farmer on the cost of the electronic ear tags.
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