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These overhead ultra-high frequency transponders can read tags as cattle pass by.

New RFID tech improves livestock tag readers

New system works at greater distance and can read groups of animals

By Angela Lovell February 22, 2016

Researchers at SAIT Polytechnic in Calgary have developed a new Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system using Ultra-High Frequency (UHF) tags that will make it easier and faster to track and trace cattle at every stage of their movement from the farm to the processing plant. With the new system, animals do not need to go […] Read more

Cattleman’s Corner, Livestock

Grants available to help with traceability programs

Traceability technology helps to track animals or food products from farm to consumer

By Angela Lovell October 15, 2015

Traceability is a high priority for the livestock industry in Canada, and federal and provincial governments have been working in collaboration with the industry to develop a National Agriculture and Food Traceability System, primarily focusing on livestock and poultry. Traceability, according to Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s website is the ability to follow an item or […] Read more

Cattleman’s Corner

COOL may be the right direction

Labelling of origin and other functional characteristics will become more important

By Jerry Klassen March 26, 2015

The confirmed new case of BSE in Alberta on Feb. 13 has caused Chian, Peru, Belarus and Taiwan to place temporary restrictions on Canadian beef. South Korea temporarily suspended imports immediately after the confirmed case while Indonesia has placed temporary restrictions on some non-edible meat products. The ability to persuade or educate the consumer is […] Read more

Cattleman’s Corner, Livestock

More robust tracking can increase livestock profitability

By Ted Power January 20, 2015

Livestock producers all over the world understand the positive impact tracking and sharing animal data can have on their bottom lines. They know due to recent “food scares,” consumers want to know that the food they are going to feed their families is safe. They want to know where it comes from, how it was […] Read more

Key players at the news conference announcing the new company to deliver BIXS include (from left) Larry Thomas, national co-ordinator of BIXS; Rob McNabb, general manager of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association; Hubert Lau of ViewTrak, CEO of the new company; and Ted Power, president of ViewTrak.

Cattleman’s Corner

BIXS being rolled out to the launch pad

New private partnership to take over pasture-to-packer tracking

By Lee Hart January 8, 2015

A service established by the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association (CCA) over the past four years to carry information back and forth along the entire beef production chain is about to shed its training wheels. The Beef Information Xchange System — commonly known as BIXS — is about to begin a new era following the December announcement […] Read more

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New RFID tech improves livestock tag readers

Grants available to help with traceability programs

COOL may be the right direction

More robust tracking can increase livestock profitability

BIXS being rolled out to the launch pad

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