In an effort to control the sspread of animal diseases, the U.S. Department of Agriculture on March 11 initiated the Animal Disease Traceability Program to track interstate livestock movement.

WASHINGTON -- Greg Ibach, under secretary for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Marketing and Regulatory Programs, recently announced USDA's four overarching goals for advancing animal disease ...

USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is proposing to amend animal disease traceability regulations and require electronic identification for interstate movement of certain cattle and ...

USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is proposing to amend animal disease traceability regulations and require electronic identification for the interstate movement of certain ...

MORTON, Minn. — A panel at the Minnesota State Cattlemen's Association annual convention addressed the U.S. Department of Agriculture's proposed rule for new requirements of animal identification ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has expanded the animal identification rules for cattle and bison, which will go into effect Nov. 5. The mandate will ...

DES MOINES - Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey is highlighting the requirements for Iowa livestock farmers under the Animal Disease Traceability rule that went into effect on March 11. The ...

USDA will start requiring that certain cattle and bison have electronic eartags, if they are to be moved from one state to another. “Rapid traceability in a disease outbreak will not only limit how ...

Eartags on adult cattle moving across states lines would have to be both visually and electronically readable under a proposal issued by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Wednesday. The ...

Classical scrapie is a degenerative prion disease found in sheep and goats. While a significant concern for livestock, it's ...