Re: Voulintary farm registration

Posted by Tom in TN on November 01, 2006 at 15:19:23 from (68.52.211.38):

In Reply to: Voulintary farm registration posted by Shawnspeed3 on November 01, 2006 at 09:21:34:

Shawn,

I raise cattle and horses in Middle Tennessee. I have not yet
signed up, but it is going to be mandatory eventually. My
biggest concern right now is that they are calling for radio-
frequency ID tags in the animals. When I take an animal off my
farm, or when someone else brings an animal onto my farm, I
will be required to log that movement with USDA via the
internet. However, to do that, I have to be able to read the code
off the radio-frequency ID tag on the animal. That code is not
the same as the Premises ID code that is assigned to the farm
where the animal resides. It is a different code, one that the
farmer who puts the RFID tag into the animal doesn't know
unless he has a reader to read it when he puts the tag into the
animal. Currently, that RFID reader costs about $700.00.

I'm hoping that USDA will come up with a more affordable
alternative.

Tom in TN

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• Re: Voulintary farm registration hayray 22:51:24 11/01/06 (0)

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