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NAIS in the Southeast
Southeastern Livestock Network
By
Jim Akers
Uses of Electronic ID
• Value Added Feeder Calf Marketing
• Slaughter cow value added
• Farm Record Keeping
• NAIS Pilot
• Carcass data programs
• Value added heifer marketing
What/Why SLN
• SLN is an LLC formed by the cattleman’s associations in 10 SE states.
• LLC to provide the ability to operate as a business, receive and distribute funding
• Decisions made by members from many sectors: LMA, Cattleman’s, Farm Bureau, State Animal Health, Extension
Goals
• Insure consistency across the region by facilitating communication at all levels.
• Insuring that the concerns of all sectors of production and marketing are heard on the national scene.
• Providing an affordable and simple data system that gives producers flexibility and control of data.
• Enhance the market potential of data to drive producer understanding and participation.
Value Added Feeder Calf Sales
• KY CPH 45 and others– EID as a means of efficiently managing co-
mingled sales.– EID provides an ability to have unique and
standardized tracking of animals without taking away the visual identity of a program tag.
– EID allows for confidential, secure sharing of data along the production/marketing chain.
Value Added Slaughter Cows
• FPL Foods, LLC– End product user on USDA NAIS Pilot– Now offering market incentive for regular sale
participation. – Producer signs affidavit declaring farm of
origin.– Cow tagged with EID to insure integrity.– Premiums paid for end product.– SLN system manages data for all parties.
NAIS Pilot
• 10 Cooperating states in SLN
• Each state will host at least one demonstration sale and educational event.
• Slaughter cows will be tagged with EID
• Tracked through the market to the processor.
• Data utilized to demonstrate how traceability can work… regulatory/market.
Other Programs
• Farm Record Keeping• Bred Heifer Marketing• Carcass Data Collection
• EID has provided the standardization that was needed to allow efficient management of these.
• Accumulated records can be used at chute side with minimal effort
• Easily tie records that come in the future back to the right animal and producers in the system.
Summary
• SLN is working to insure that the small producer and market in the SE is not disadvantaged by the implementation of NAIS.
• Working to insure that SE producers have an option to take advantage of the premium that exists early in the implementation of NAIS.
• Setting a precedent for reasonable costs of products and services and the business rules that should govern data sharing and use.
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