Support sought for proposal to digitise cattle passports

The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) Dairy Committee is calling for bovine passports, commonly known as blue cards, to be digitised. The committee believes that the use of electronic identification (EID) tags and the strong uptake in genotyping has made the provision of physical animal registration cards “largely redundant”. According to the committee, it costs the […] The post Support sought for proposal to digitise cattle passports appeared first on Agriland.ie.