NLIS Benefits
There is a global trend towards adopting animal traceability systems. Australia’s major competitors and customers have or are in the process of adopting animal identification systems. To maintain our competitive advantage, NLIS became mandatory in Australia in 2005. NLIS delivers advantages for the livestock industry, and for cattle producers.
Benefits for Industry
- Meet national traceability performance standards for determining where animals resided at any stage in their lives, and the current location of all cattle they have come into contact with
- Reduce the financial and social impact of a livestock disease epidemic or chemical residue incident
- Maintain access to international markets
- Maintain consumer confidence in the safety and quality of Australian beef and dairy products
Benefits for Producers
- Identify individual animals with NLIS devices
- Check market access of cattle on your property (lifetime traceability, European Union etc)
- Integrate NLIS data, such as carcase feedback, with on-farm management systems, to improve management practices or breeding programs
- Check transaction for your property
- Flag animals that have gone missing
- Reconcile cattle on your property with devices registered to your property on the database
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