Animal ID System Now

Federally mandated animal ID programs are more than a year away from implementation, but that’s no excuse for farmers and ranchers not to begin implementing this system on their own, said one of the featured speakers at a recent East Texas forage and beef field day.

Tim Niedecken, information director for eMerge Interactive, one of several Texas companies marketing electronic ID tags and related services, said farmers have every incentive to adopt this technology before the mandatory system is in place.

"Having animals ID'ed won't increase your liability, it will decrease it," Niedecken said, speaking to the more than 200 East Texas farmers and ranchers who attended a field day held April 15 at the Texas A&M University System Agricultural Research and Extension Center at Overton.

Posted by Jim Langcuster at April 23, 2004 09:36 AM | TrackBack