Amid another possible government shutdown, a passage in an omnibus bill, which includes $15 million to electronically track livestock, raises alarms with Republicans. The House on Wednesday passed a ...

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — The cow kept losing her ear tag. Again and again, she’d rub against a fence or a tree until the plastic tag, about the size of an index card, fell off. So rancher David Watson had ...

An Australian entrepreneur, now based in Durango, wants to change the way cattle herds are managed with health-tracking technology. David Poussard’s company CattleFit was one of five local companies ...

A livestock auction company is recommending a cattle-tracking RFID system to its customers as an alternative to what it sees as a cumbersome nationwide animal-tracking program to be mandated by the ...

The proposed tracking network casts a wide net. In addition to cattle, it would track horses, poultry, bison, sheep, hogs and farmed fish. Farmers with a milk cow or two would participate alongside ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Meatpackers and fast-food restaurants are backing a new database that could help health officials quickly track the source of an outbreak of food-poisoning all the way back to the ...

(Bloomberg) -- Brazil is pressing ahead with plans to track its cattle herds as the world’s largest beef producer contends with international pressure to prevent deforestation caused by commodity ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazil's JBS, the world's largest meat company, has delivered 123,765 ear tags to individually track cattle in Para state, according to a statement on Monday, marking a possible ...