Southeastern NAIS Pilot Project

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Southeastern NAIS Pilot Project

• Operated by
• Southeastern Livestock Network, LLC

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Goals

• Develop a system that
• Creates the largest possible body of data to
  enhance our disease surveillance and mgt.
  programs.
• Minimize impact on markets
• Minimize investment and workload of all
  stakeholders
• Protect the integrity of BQA, animal and human
  safety

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The Challenge
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Markets

• Wilkes Co. Stockyards, Georgia
• East Tennessee Livestock
• Virginia Cattle Co.
• Taylor Co. Livestock, KY
• Tylertown and Lucedale, MS
• Cullman Stockyards, AL
• Buchannon, WV
• Harward Brothers Livestock, NC
• Red River Livestock, LA
• Chester Livestock Exchange, SC

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Project Partners

• Software Market Systems, ASI, Genesis,
  Microsoft Excel, Winwedge, Drystone, Caldwell
• Ear Tags Allflex and Digital Angel
• Y tex, Z tag,
• Readers - Allflex, AgInfoLink, Ytex(Edit),
  Digital Angel, Boontech, IDology
• Database and tracking AgInfoLink
• Tag Distribution IMI Global

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Premise Registration

• Every participating producer was invited to
  register for a premise id
• State Animal Health officials on site to answer
  questions and take applications
• Between 50-150 Premise applications per event.

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Tell me what to do?
Education. Our biggest challenge
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Educational Effort
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Tag Placement
Errors are quite common in first time users. Tag
loss, infection, erosion of acceptance Most
common error is placement too close to head.
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Special thanks to the State Departments of
Agriculture and the State Animal Health Officials
in the member states, for their support and
cooperation in this effort. The task of disease
surveillance and management is ultimately their
responsibility and working together with the
livestock industry to address this monumental
undertaking is appreciated and acknowledged.
Special thanks to the State Departments of
Agriculture and the State Animal Health Officials
in the member states, for their support and
cooperation in this effort. The task of disease
surveillance and management is ultimately their
responsibility and working together with the
livestock industry to address this monumental
undertaking is appreciated and acknowledged.
Special thanks to the State Departments of
Agriculture and the State Animal Health Officials
in the member states, for their support and
cooperation in this effort. The task of disease
surveillance and management is ultimately their
responsibility and working together with the
livestock industry to address this monumental
undertaking is appreciated and acknowledged.
Special thanks to the State Departments of
Agriculture and the State Animal Health Officials
in the member states, for their support and
cooperation in this effort. The task of disease
surveillance and management is ultimately their
responsibility and working together with the
livestock industry to address this monumental
undertaking is appreciated and acknowledged.
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• Kentucky Beef Network, LLC
• Alabama Cattlemans Assc.
• Mississippi Cattlemans Assc.
• Louisiana Cattlemans Assc.
• Tennessee Cattlemans Assc.
• Georgia Cattlemans Assc.
• South Carolina Cattlemans Assc.
• North Carolina Cattlemans Assc.
• Virginia Cattlemans Assc.
• West Virginia Cattlemans Assc.
• Contact one of these member organizations in your
  local area for more details.

• Kentucky Beef Network, LLC
• Alabama Cattlemans Assc.
• Mississippi Cattlemans Assc.
• Louisiana Cattlemans Assc.
• Tennessee Cattlemans Assc.
• Georgia Cattlemans Assc.
• South Carolina Cattlemans Assc.
• North Carolina Cattlemans Assc.
• Virginia Cattlemans Assc.
• West Virginia Cattlemans Assc.
• Contact one of these member organizations in your
  local area for more details.

• Kentucky Beef Network, LLC
• Alabama Cattlemans Assc.
• Mississippi Cattlemans Assc.
• Louisiana Cattlemans Assc.
• Tennessee Cattlemans Assc.
• Georgia Cattlemans Assc.
• South Carolina Cattlemans Assc.
• North Carolina Cattlemans Assc.
• Virginia Cattlemans Assc.
• West Virginia Cattlemans Assc.
• Contact one of these member organizations in your
  local area for more details.

• Kentucky Beef Network, LLC
• Alabama Cattlemans Assc.
• Mississippi Cattlemans Assc.
• Louisiana Cattlemans Assc.
• Tennessee Cattlemans Assc.
• Georgia Cattlemans Assc.
• South Carolina Cattlemans Assc.
• North Carolina Cattlemans Assc.
• Virginia Cattlemans Assc.
• West Virginia Cattlemans Assc.
• Contact one of these member organizations in your
  local area for more details.

USDA/NAIS Animal Tracking Pilot Project
USDA/NAIS Animal Tracking Pilot Project
USDA/NAIS Animal Tracking Pilot Project
USDA/NAIS Animal Tracking Pilot Project
Southeastern Livestock Network, LLC
Southeastern Livestock Network, LLC
Southeastern Livestock Network, LLC
Southeastern Livestock Network, LLC
176 Pasadena Dr. Lexington, KY 40503
176 Pasadena Dr. Lexington, KY 40503
176 Pasadena Dr. Lexington, KY 40503
176 Pasadena Dr. Lexington, KY 40503
Phone [phone] Fax (859)
260-2060 bbennett_at_kycattle.org
Phone [phone] Fax (859)
260-2060 bbennett_at_kycattle.org
Phone [phone] Fax (859)
260-2060 bbennett_at_kycattle.org
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260-2060 bbennett_at_kycattle.org
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Communicating
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Educational Messages

• Dont procrastinate on Premise ID
• Market access
• Tag your cattle at home
• Cost, shrink, market flow
• Understand difference in management, marketing
  and compliance
• Technology not all that important

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Data Collection Systems

• Tags Applied and read at back tag application
• Used to cross reference against the back tag
  tracking records after the sale.
• Tags Applied and read at back tag and at sale
  ring or scales
• EID actually captured into the software system
  and used to manage sale.

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Methods of data collection
96-99 92-99
100
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Reader system types
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Hand Reading
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Which is best?

• Hand reading at chute side is the most accurate.
• Rarely is a tag missed.
• If tag read is missed exception process can be
  used.
• Equipment is less expensive
• Stick/Wand reader ranging in price from
  500-1500
• Labor/Time requirement is high
• Disruption of market flow
• For some smaller locations.a viable option

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Walk Through Installations
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Walk Through Installations
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Walk Through Installations
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Which is best?

• Walk thru reading is the easiest
• Current equipment allowed us to read tags at a
  rate of 92 99(These were not permanent reader
  installations) .
• Equipment is more expensive
• Equipment used for pilot cost roughly 5200 to
  equip one single file alley at 32 wide.
• Wide alley system may cost as much as 40,000
• Labor/Time requirement is low
• Minimal market disruption

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Boontech
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Allflex
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Where do we need to be?

• If we can read RIFD tags in a walk thru system at
  rates in the 96-98 range.
• If the only alternative to go to 100 is a one at
  a time system.
• Is that 2-4 necessary to achieve our goals
• Is it worth changing our industry and our
  handling and marketing procedures to get 100

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Factors in equipment choice?

• High performance most did this
• Ability to create a system few did this
• The Bubba Factor can anyone set up and
  operate
• Flexibility of environments
• Edit panels marketed by Y Tex
• Allflex Panels
• Allflex and AgInfoLink handhelds

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Largest factor in read rates of walk thru systems
is the tag

• There are major differences in the current low
  frequency RFID tags on the market
• We achieved good success with several different
  readers but not tags.
• The tags chosen for the project were
• Allflex HDX
• Digital Angel e tag FDX

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What are the differences in tags?
Summary of multiple trials over one year
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Software Issues

• Originally contacted 6 providers, 4 of which
  achieved the objective
• The key to providing customer service and
  simplifying the task
• How do we use the Premise number?
• Providers need clear definitions of
• Data for output, NAIS/marketing needs
• Format
• Standardization of reader output
• What to do if we miss an RF read
• Tell me what to do???

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Confidentiality

• What is your concern over confidentiality?
• IRS
• Other mission creep
• Accuracy of associating the right person in a
  case, period of ownership
• Exposure of business practices
• Customer list

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Confidentiality Investigation

• No real news
• Much legislative restructuring required to
  protect data if held in public system, this has
  to be done either way.
• There is precedent for entities that receive
  public funds to protect data in a private system.
• A private system can protect proprietary data
  through agreements.

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Limits and Frustrations

• Lack of Premise numbers
• Need for uniformity of terminology and data
  fields
• Field trial environment means less than optimum
  performance of equipment and systems.
• Lack of understanding of reasons for and purpose
  of NAIS

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Summary

• Much work left to do reader/tag technology,
  software, attitude
• We can operate at an acceptable level of accuracy
  using current technology without major
  disruptions in movement.
• Tagging animals is the major problem, must
  encourage tagging outside of markets.

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Thank You

• Jim Akers
• 176 Pasadena Dr.
• Lexington, KY 40503
• 859-278-0899
• jakers_at_uky.edu
• www.slnllc.com
• www.cph45.com
• www.kycattle.org

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How do we use orientation

• Presentation of tag is going to be near worst
  orientation when animals move up an alley.
• We have to design systems based on worst
  orientation, this limits width of alley
• Or.. Train all the cattle to lay their ears back
  when they see a reader.

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Orientation is a big issue

• Best Orientation

• Worst Orientation

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Read Range and Orientation
Panel
Black Trade Show Red Worst Orientation Green
- Reality
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How long is an animal in a read field??
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Orientation

• Panel

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Resources

• www.slnllc.com
• Results and news will be posted
• Alley design
• Tag data
• Reader evaluation
• SLN services

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Special Thanks

• John Stevenson
• Becky Bennett
• John Jackson
• UK Extension
• Jim Collins
• AgInfoLink

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Developments as result of Pilot

• Boontech System now operational and permanently
  installed.
• Ongoing project with Allflex to develop and test
  multi alley system, first installation in place.
• Several installations of Edit(Ytex) equipment
  ongoing.

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Developments as result of Pilot

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