MFA Health Track becomes a sponsor of Cattle Trace pilot program

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MFA Health Track has partnered with the Cattle Trace pilot program. "The goal of the Cattle Trace pilot is to create a more-effective beef disease response tracking system while protecting the data. We are proud to lend our expertise to this industry-led effort. Customers who want to participate can opt-in,” said Mike John, manager of MFA Health Track.

Health Track and Kingsville Livestock auction are the first two businesses in Missouri to work with the pilot program. Missouri Department of Agriculture as signed an letter of intent to work with the project as well.

Click below to learn more about this pilot program and it's phase 2, or online at https://mfa-inc.com/healthtrack for more info. https://www.cattletrace.org

CattleTrace shifts to Phase Two

The CattleTrace pilot project has three primary objectives – (1) develop a purpose-built infrastructure for disease traceability; (2) test the infrastructure; and (3) evaluate its economics at both the individual producer and industry-wide levels. For the past year, CattleTrace has focused almost entirely on developing the purpose-built infrastructure, including recruiting partners, installing readers and distributing tags.

While we will continue expanding the infrastructure both in Kansas and outside of the state, the focus is shifting to the second objective of testing the infrastructure. This “Phase Two” of CattleTrace includes evaluating the effectiveness of the data collected and the robustness of the CattleTrace database. For example, we have proven the ability to successfully transmit data to the CattleTrace database when calves are sighted, but now we are working to develop a series of robust queries to enable us to trace cattle movement in the event of a disease situation. CattleTrace hypothesized that we only need four data points (animal ID number, time, date and location of the readers) to conduct a trace-back or trace-forward on an animal in the event of a disease outbreak. The queries we are building will allow us to test this hypothesis and determine if those are the only necessary data points, or if others are required.

The first mock traces with the CattleTrace system will start in summer 2019, and we will share the results as they are evaluated.

– https://www.cattletrace.org/blog/what-s-new-with-cattletrace?fbclid=IwAR0bSMQHHBLURQAaCwgGsVoQVXZOoMZPAfOv1_joczQV7fG-jd5y-2Cv1BM

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