Sheep
The ICSA held a protest today at the Department of Agriculture to reflect "growing anger" over EID tagging and the clean sheep policy.
The compulsory use of EID tagging for all sheep has been described as “completely over the top" by the ICSA's John Brooks.
Beef
"Preliminary discussions" have recently taken place regarding the introduction of the mandatory electronic tagging (EID) of cattle.
Over 84,000 EID (electronic identification) cattle tags have been sold to date in 2018, the Department of Agriculture has confirmed.
Agri-Business
Sheep meat is unlikely to gain access to the Japanese market without electronic tagging, Minister Michael Creed has stated.
The Government's proposed new €25m sheep scheme has yet to be confirmed with the issue of electronic tagging said to be holding up agreement on the scheme.
