The new year will mark another important milestone in Victoria’s transition to an electronic National Livestock Identification System (NLIS).
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From January 1, 2019, all sheep and non-exempt goats introduced from interstate and born on or after this date, must be tagged with an electronic post-breeder tag before being dispatched from a Victorian property unless they already have an electronic ear tag.
Interstate producers need to continue to meet their individual state requirements for tagging and identification of sheep and goats.
Agriculture Victoria said the state’s sheep and goats NLIS had recently scanned impressive numbers with 140,000 and 100,000 head a week respectively being scanned in late November in Victorian saleyards and abattoirs.
More recently, Hamilton saleyards scanned more than 51,000 electronically tagged sheep on a single sale day and successfully uploaded them to the NLIS database.
Since the NLIS system was announced for sheep and goats in August 2016, electronically tagged sheep and goats have been scanned and uploaded to the NLIS database more than two million times in saleyards and more than 3.7 million times at Victorian abattoirs.