Côte d’Ivoire picks French firm Vet’Tronic for RFID livestock tagging as pilot of 20,000 animals starts in December
Côte d’Ivoire starts tagging livestock in December 2026 under a 12-month pilot covering 20,000 electronic ear tags and 5,000 pet chips, paid for by French supplier Vet’Tronic out of its…
Costa Rica’s RFID cattle-tag deadline hits trade as southern auction gets 27% of usual cattle
Just 178 cattle arrived at a Perez Zeledon auction on 27 October 2026 instead of the usual 650, the first day Costa Rica enforced its RFID ear-tag rule. Nationally 94.34%…
Burkina Faso puts RFID identifiers in the rumen of 300,000 cattle to fight livestock theft
Burkina Faso launched a campaign on 19 September 2026 to identify 300,000 cattle with electronic identifiers placed in the rumen, read by handheld readers to prove who owns a recovered…
Dutch pig sector moves to replace paper slaughter records with RFID ear tags
Dutch pork, transport and meat sectors want the metal slaughter mark on pigs replaced by an RFID ear tag, reportedly by January 2027, now that the electric prod ban makes…
Swine RFID Program Boosts Disease Preparedness
The National Pork Board is handing RFID readers to the people who see the most pig traffic in a year. Swine exhibition sites, state pork associations and Extension programmes holding…
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