Animal Id System to Be Tested ; Livingston County Will Trace Livestock to Pinpoint Problems
The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL › April 10, 2006
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PONTIAC - Every year, Marion Shier sees hundreds of hogs, cattle and sheep arrive on the Livingston County Fairgrounds from dozens of farms. They stay for a few days, then return home or are shown at other shows across the Midwest.
"Biosecurity becomes an issue for me just going from farm to farm to tag animals which are going to be exhibited," said Shier, Livingston County Extension crops educator.See the full content of this document
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Animal Id System to Be Tested ; Livingston County Will Trace Livestock to Pinpoint Problems
Shier sometimes wonders what might happen if an ill animal attended the fair, infected others and the illness wasnt discovered until all the animals had gone to the four ends of the earth. How quickly could ...
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