The USDA will require electronic ear tags in cattle and bison crossing state lines, a long-debated policy the agency said will contain disease outbreaks and keep U.S. beef acceptable to other ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) may be better named the Farmer Aggravating and Regulatory Threats Department (FARTD). Its recent move to require electronic ear tags on cattle and bison ...

A cow in a pasture near Eureka in September 2024. (Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight) A group of ranchers and cattle industry associations is suing the U.S. Department of Agriculture in federal ...

MINNESOTA (Valley News Live) - The Minnesota Board of Animal will implement a new United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) official ...

USDA will start requiring that certain cattle and bison have electronic eartags, if they are to be moved from one state to another. “Rapid traceability in a disease outbreak will not only limit how ...

Rounds has introduced legislation to prevent the Secretary of Agriculture from implementing any rule or regulation requiring use of electronic identification tags on cattle and bison. Sen. Mike Rounds ...

At its testing facility in the Badlands of North Dakota, Fargo-based startup 701x is putting final touches on its ear tag that tracks GPS location, monitors animal activity, as well as its software ...

Ed. Note: This post originally appeared at the blog of RFID Journal LIVE!, the world’s largest conference and exhibition focused on RFID and related technologies. Radio frequency identification (RFID) ...

USDA will start requiring that certain cattle and bison have electronic eartags, if they are to be moved from one state to another. This week’s guest on Open Mic is Beth Ellikidis, Vice President, ...