CCIA Recommends

[topper]

CCIA Recommends All 2005 Calves Be Tagged With RFID Tags



In order to better facilitate the transition to RFID technology, the CCIA recommends that all 2005 claves be tagged with one of the six CCIA approved RFID tags. On December 16, 2004 the CCIA Board of Directors motioned that, “Following the introduction of RFID as of January 1, 2005, CCIA will be considering a date for the end of grandfathering of bar coded tags.” By tagging all 2005 calves with the new technology, producers are preparing for the possibility of an end date to the grandfathering of previous bar coded tags. The CCIA approved RFID tags are now available for sale from approved tag manufactures, distributors and dealers. For more information regarding these tags as well as verified reader information please visit our website www.canadaid.ca.

[WoolyBear]

This is all fine and dandy. I wonder if anyone is going to offer to subsidize anything to us for the extra cost of these RFID tags. Hard enough to justify the nearly double cost over the dangle/barcode tags, without any place to put any production info. If we include the dangle tag in the other ear, thats going to be over $3 a head more cost this year.

[grassfarmer]

And the only reason we are doing it is to make life easier for the US packing pirates. When we don't need to record individual tag numbers for any other purpose it is clear it won't benefit us. Any word whether killing information will be returned to the purchaser of the RFID?