NAIS, Agriculture, and Government
NAIS, Agriculture, and Government What are we to do? Although I haven't read a lot about this, I have read enough to form at least a basic understanding. As I look at my dairy, and the potential for using technology, I already will include radio tags for my cattle. This is an expense that will assist me in identification of my cattle, for breeding and milking. I have a strong database that tracks the linage of my cattle so that I can document the genetics, for breed conservancy. I also track their health in many, many documents, all electronically documented in my database. I also track their food through the same database, so I can be certain that we are feeding a high quality feed to our cattle. I track their milk production and heat or dry stages, and other details, and all of this is helped by my use of radio identification. I track their behavior as well, using herd notes (written by the herd manager, the milker, and by my personal observation), using radio tracking