[blackbelly] NAIP Tagging

[Mary Swindell]

Carol,
Do you know whether the tamper-proof Premier scrapie tags (for the 
voluntary scrapie-free certification program) are likely to be acceptable 
for the NAIP?
Mary Swindell


At 12:05 PM 10/10/2005 -0700, you wrote:

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Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 15:14:13 -0600
From: "Carol J. Elkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [blackbelly] Stan Potratz' summary of the NAIP tagging
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Stan Potratz, owner of Premier Fencing (http://www.premier1supplies.com)
spent last week in Chicago at the Livestock ID Expo listening to reports
from various industry segments regarding the National Animal Identification
Program.

His summary...
For sheep and goats, the existing radio frequency ID (RFID) tags and
readers have proven in initial trials to not be up to the task of a
national tracking system. They are problem-prone and costly. It might cost
the sheep industry over $15 million per year ($3.75 per breeding ewe/year)
for the RFID tag, time to install/read, private database, and
infrastructure. That's five times the cost of the lamb checkoff. And unlike
the checkoff it provides few obvious financial benefits. So sheep and goat
industry leaders feel we should stay with the visual scrapie system for
now--and make it better.



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