Cattle tagging system under fire

Ray Ryan

TD Seymour Crawford, the party’s deputy spokesman on agriculture, said statistics regarding new and replacement ear tags issued last year were “stark.” A total of 2.3 million new tag sets were issued while 93,871 pairs and 271,514 single tags had to be replaced.

Mr Crawford said an implant system must be a real alternative to the costly and totally unsatisfactory system being used.