The National Animal Identification System continues to attract the support of America's producers. Since USDA unveiled the program, which is a partnership between the States, industry and producers, ...

A controversial federal plan to track livestock from birth to butcher shop needs more input from the people it intends to regulate, new U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said ...

A key congressional subcommittee has stripped federal funding from efforts to establish a mandatory national animal identification system. A spokesman for a major ranchers' group called the move a ...

The chairwoman of the House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee expressed reservations about the Agriculture Department secretary's plan to turn much of the proposed national animal identification ...

Following the discovery of mad cow disease in a Washington state animal last December, U.S. officials pledged to adopt quickly a system for tracking cattle. But the development of a national animal ...

An announcement Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture of guiding principles for development of a public/private partnership in the development of a National Animal Identification System (NAIS) ...

When the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture announced the discovery of the nation’s first case of mad cow in late Dec. 2003, consumers and ranchers were met by a government search-and-destroy blitz worthy of ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Thursday that 29 state and tribal projects - including three in Montana and Wyoming - will share in $11.6 million for work toward a ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has approved a passive ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) RFID tag for cattle tracking that will be used in conjunction with the agency’s Animal Identification Number ...

Any national livestock identification system needs to be coupled with mandatory country-of-origin meat labeling, said Tom Buis, vice president for governmental relations of the National Farmers Union.

Co announces that it has received an order for 630,000 compliant radio frequency identification ear tags valued at more than $600K from the United States Department of Agriculture for the National ...

An automated national system for tracking animals faces countless challenges and is still years away from being operational. Nonetheless, some experts are pushing the U.S. to quicken the pace in light ...