Smart ear tags are saving a Kelso dairy about two hours a day manually checking every calf. The technology is allowing the team at KSH Farms to focus on the individuals that need it and pick up ...

Using specialist ear tags to alert farmers to increases in calf body temperature has been shown to enable pneumonia to be picked up early, allowing prompt treatment, improved growth and less ...

The cow-calf producer organization R-CALF sued the USDA on Oct. 30 to stop the agency from requiring ranchers who move cattle and bison across state lines to use electronic identification ear tags.

R-CALF USA opposes a USDA proposal that would require the use of radio frequency identification ear tags to receive livestock indemnification payments in the event of a disease outbreak. “These ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will begin offering the option of no-cost Radio Frequency Identification ear tags to veterinarians and producers for use in young beef, dairy or bison breeding ...

At its testing facility in the Badlands of North Dakota, Fargo-based startup 701x is putting final touches on its ear tag that tracks GPS location, monitors animal activity, as well as its software ...

Livestock researchers are working on new technologies that will enable cattle ear tags to hold more information. CQUniversity Professor Dave Swain said while the April Fool's Day prank of ...

Researchers have studied beef cattle with in-ear accelerometers. These units may be able pick up signs that relate to early stages of disease in cattle. A smartphone switches its orientation from ...