BOVINE TAGS

BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Commission is pushing for European Union (EU) member governments to use more electronic identifiers for cattle and calves. In a detailed paper, it has suggested an optional system where one of the two eartags currently used is replaced by an electronic bolus or other transponder as an integral part of identification. This would improve the current system, where electronic systems can merely be an optional extra to an already comprehensive system. Also, under the Commission's proposals, electronic systems would have to be standardised, ...


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