USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced last week that it will not implement its Federal Register Notice requiring the use of radio frequency identification tags on all cattle and bison moved across state lines.
The notice was to take effect at the start of 2023. R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard says the announcement is good news for U.S. cattle producers.
“We have many producers that don’t have the equipment and facilities in order to tag all the animals they wish to ship across state lines,” he said.
