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 ...

LAS CRUCES - When Derek Bailey was a child in southern Colorado, he was intrigued by cattle that would climb the steep slopes on his family’s ranch while all the other cattle grazed below. “It was ...

Smart Paddock’s smart GPS ear tag, “Bluebell,” remotely monitors livestock via Semtech’s LoRa® devices and the LoRaWAN® standard "To develop Smart Paddock’s GPS livestock ear tag, we researched and ...

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 ...

The proposed tracking network casts a wide net. In addition to cattle, it would track horses, poultry, bison, sheep, hogs and farmed fish. Farmers with a milk cow or two would participate alongside ...

Start-up firm Somark Innovations is touting technology designed to help tag and trace livestock with radio frequency identification (RFID)-enabled ink tattoos. The St. Louis-based company announced ...

EMMETT, Idaho Federal policy is meeting Western reality on the rangelands of Idaho, where wide-open spaces, technological glitches and bitter cold can foil plans to track livestock and protect the ...