Ranchers are split over a new federal program that tracks livestock from birth to the slaughterhouse. The system makes it easier to locate animals that may be carrying diseases like foot-and-mouth or ...

USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has taken another step toward limiting the impact of an outbreak of foreign animal diseases by amending and strengthening its animal disease ...

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its plans this week for a national network to identify animals exposed to infections such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). The initial ...

The The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is proposing to amend animal disease traceability regulations that require electronic identification ...

The Federal government has said that the newly launched National Animal Identification and Traceability System (NAITS) would curb livestock rustling, facilitate interventions, as well as provision of ...

ID Worksheets are available at the Extension Office. Remember in order to exhibit or sell your animal at auction, you MUST take the YQCA This ID Day is for beef feeder calves, dairy feeder claves, ...

8am to 10am -- All Swine will arrive between those hours to the show arena 8:30am to 9:30am -- Beef Heifers at the beef barn (Cattle Barn near sheep barn) 9:30am to 10:30am to Dairy steers born after ...