Bright pink ear tags for sheep are now being sold to help raise funds for breast cancer. A company producing sheep tags has come up with the novel idea to raise money for the McGrath Foundation. The ...

Is it the top picture, which shows Brendan Carey, from Scanclear, walking away while sheep run freely through a portable scanning race? Or is it the lower picture, in which he is trying to shove ewes ...

THERE is still some confusion among farmers regarding the requirements for the electronic tagging of sheep. An electronic identification (EID) set refers to a pair of tags, one being a mart tag for ...

The reported ease of recordkeeping and accuracy of Electronic Identification (EID) tags mean many sheep producers in Montana are utilizing the technology, according to producer feedback at the recent ...

Sheep producers who move animals across state lines must now have the animals officially identified with a USDA ear tag. The new regulation is part of the National Scrapie Eradication Program, says ...

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RESEARCH in Wales has confirmed that plans by EC Food Safety Commissioner David Byrne to make farmers mark each sheep with ear tags and electronic identification are neither practical nor effective.

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A LEGACY of the foot-and-mouth epidemic was one of the biggest talking points on the NSA Welsh Sheep showground. A LEGACY of the foot-and-mouth epidemic was one of the biggest talking points on the ...

Mr Murphy said most sheep farmers oppose the EU’s move towards individual EID tagging for sheep. This is largely because the electronic tags cause ear infections in sheep in a way that the old mart ...