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 ...

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.

A critical assumption of radiotelemetry studies is that the radiotransmitters themselves do not influence mortality. Here we report the effects of marking techniques on survival of moose (Alces alces) ...

A Saskatchewan startup is preparing to pilot a new type of cattle ear tag that uses so-called 'Emotional AI' to help predict calving and ...

In Dan Gattis’ Georgetown pasture, cows and their newborn calves have bright yellow ear tags with identification numbers. “I can take that knife and pull that ear tag out,” said Gattis, a former state ...

A Texas tradition of cattle branding may soon be a thing of the past for more than 13 million head in the state. There’s a new federal proposal to move to ear-tagging as the Department of Agriculture ...

A cow in a pasture near Eureka in September 2024. (Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight) A group of ranchers and cattle industry associations is suing the U.S. Department of Agriculture in federal ...

New rule being published by the Animal Plant Health Inspection Service will require electronic identification ear tags for dairy, and some beef, cattle in 180 days. Such EID tags come with LF or UHF ...