Ahead of the House passing a $460 billion spending bill, Republicans are criticizing a specific passage of livestock tracking.

Inventors are promoting all manner of livestock tracking technology, from implanted microchips to retinal scans to sensors that can be linked by satellite to the global positioning network.

As livestock move around the country, so does H5N1. The U.S. needs real-time tracking of livestock movements ...

WASHINGTON (AP) – A livestock tracking system planned by the government will not include the age of animals, despite the key role age has played in mad cow disease investigations. Agriculture ...

The federal government has launched a new livestock identification program to help agriculture officials to quickly track livestock in cases of disease.

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 ...

Before this mad cow case, the USDA had set July 2005 as the first deadline for ID tracking of interstate cattle movements. Progress for the project had stalled, however, as policy-makers and ...

A nationwide, industry-run system for tracking livestock may be operating by January, a cattlemen's group said Thursday.

To ensure proper tracking and identification, each captured animal is fitted with a unique ear tag, and a photograph is taken at the location where it was caught ...