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enabled, which should be in 2021. PERFORMANCE Federated Farmers’ Meat & Wool Fast growth, high meat yields, Industry Group chair, William Beetham, meat quality, excellent survival says bringing sheep into NAIT or a similar and tough hardy rams scheme is “a very fraught space” largely due to difficulties farmers have had with NAIT for cattle and deer, but doing so would be quite sensible, he believes. RUNT “The key will be making sure there’s NZ Standard Terminal Worth (NZTW) confidence in the system’s ease of use for st growth, high meat yields, excellent survival and tough 1600 1600 rdy rams 1400 Premier Suftex participants. That’s really important. It 1400
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won’t work if we don’t have buy-in from farmers.” But implementing an electronic system for sheep traceability “should be a priority” nonetheless, he says, and it needs to be done with adequate support so all farms are capable of using the system, including the computer illiterate or those without adequate connectivity. “The lead on this needs to be taken by Government and MPI, working with industry bodies.”
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National Livestock Identification Scheme approved tag, and since July 2010, movements must be recorded on the NLIS database. States have the option of implementing individual animal identification. To date only Victoria has taken this approach with sheep, making individual EID or visual tags mandatory from January 2017. Beef + Lamb New Zealand’s Chris Houston (see main story) says with the exception of the United States, New Zealand is now one of the only countries in the developed world that doesn’t require livestock farms to register on a national database for biosecurity purposes. This is not a problem for cattle and deer farms, which are in NAIT, but it could be for other species including sheep and pigs. “The situation is particularly challenging for biosecurity responders seeking to identify and visit lifestyle blocks and para-commercial farms that are under-represented in existing databases here.”
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