Canada: Swine traceability ear tag distributed
The Canadian Pork Council has launched the distribution of its traceability ear tags as part of the development of a national swine traceability system.
Traceability program manager Jeff Clark says the initial focus of the tag portion of the system is getting the tags into the breeding herds. Producers in Manitoba and Saskatchewan can place orders and the other provinces will come on line within the next few days or the next few weeks.
Jeff Clark of the Canadian Pork Council says “Since most breeding animals have tags already for barn management purposes, we’ve tried to create a tag that can suit those needs as well so it’s a very practical tag.
“Again one of our key components to developing a traceability program is we want to make it valuable to the producer not just for fighting disease or potentially getting enhanced market access around the world but we want to try to create a business tool that can help producers do their business.
“There’s two types of tags. Both of them will have printed on them a unique traceability number for the animal but there’s also room on it for a barn management number that the producer can have custom printed on there with their order so it also suits the needs of their barn management.”
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