Amid another possible government shutdown, a passage in an omnibus bill, which includes $15 million to electronically track livestock, raises alarms with Republicans. The House on Wednesday passed a ...

The presence of H5N1 avian influenza virus, better known as bird flu, among dairy cows in Texas — the second largest producer of dairy cattle — was first confirmed in late March. By then, H5N1 had ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook WASHINGTON (AP) – A livestock tracking system planned by the government will not include the age ...

The proposed tracking network casts a wide net. In addition to cattle, it would track horses, poultry, bison, sheep, hogs and farmed fish. Farmers with a milk cow or two would participate alongside ...

A nationwide, industry-run system for tracking livestock will be operating by January, a cattlemen's group said Thursday, less than two weeks after the government confirmed a new case of mad cow ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Meatpackers and fast-food restaurants are backing a new database that could help health officials quickly track the source of an outbreak of food-poisoning all the way back to the ...

A livestock auction company is recommending a cattle-tracking RFID system to its customers as an alternative to what it sees as a cumbersome nationwide animal-tracking program to be mandated by the ...

Start-up firm Somark Innovations is touting technology designed to help tag and trace livestock with radio frequency identification (RFID)-enabled ink tattoos. The St. Louis-based company announced ...

(Bloomberg) -- Brazil is pressing ahead with plans to track its cattle herds as the world’s largest beef producer contends with international pressure to prevent deforestation caused by commodity ...