Kansas Takes the Lead On Disease Traceability By: Mary Soukup, CattleTrace Industry Advisory Committee
The year is 1999. Most households had a landline telephone. Some had the ability to connect to the Internet using a dial-up infrastructure. Many did not. Cellular telephones were for emergencies only, and you needed a bag to carry them in. Amazon.com was a toddler – just a four-year-old company. Google Inc. was still in diapers – having been founded the year prior. The United States was a global leader in the beef industry, but it did not have an end-to-end disease traceability system in the cattle industry.
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