WASHINGTON (AP) -- Meatpackers and fast-food restaurants are backing a new database that could help health officials quickly track the source of an outbreak of food-poisoning all the way back to the ...

Missouri is the second largest cow-calf producing state in this country and soon everyone who keeps cattle, no matter how many or how few, will be identified by the government. It's the first step ...

(Bloomberg) -- Brazil is pressing ahead with plans to track its cattle herds as the world’s largest beef producer contends with international pressure to prevent deforestation caused by commodity ...

WASHINGTON - Investigators may never figure out where the Alabama cow with mad cow disease was born and raised, in part because the U.S. lacks a livestock tracking system the Bush administration ...

A livestock auction company is recommending a cattle-tracking RFID system to its customers as an alternative to what it sees as a cumbersome nationwide animal-tracking program to be mandated by the ...

WASHINGTON -- A livestock tracking system planned by the government will not include the age of animals, despite the key role age has played in mad cow disease investigations. Agriculture Department ...

TekVet LLC, a Utah-based developer of agricultural technology, has selected IBM to host and manage the data centers for its RFID-based cattle tracking and temperature monitoring system. The livestock ...

Cattle groups differ U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns last week announced that the department intends to put the system in the hands of a private entity. He said it must be efficient, ...

MABTON, Wash. - A walking tour of Bill Wavrin's dairy takes few steps. His house and office sit on a hill above the milking parlor, birthing pen and calf sheds. Beyond, his cows sprawl in groups of 15 ...