Identification Requirements and Traceability System

animal husbandry: The government is providing more than $250,000 to help the industry prepare for national identification requirements for the country approximately 225,000 goats, according to The Chronicle Herald. The funds will help set up a tagging and traceability system for a growing animal husbandry sector that includes meat, dairy and goat fibres. But it appears Canada goat farmers did get Ottawa ear. The Canadian National Goat Federation says there are unique challenges to creating a common identification tagging system for all goats because of the wide variety of ears found on different breeds. Agriculture Minister Lawrence Mac Aulay said in a release Wednesday that the federal funding helps set the stage for a mandatory identification and traceability system under changes made last year to federal animal health regulations. The federation says identifying and tracing goats has benefits for both producers and consumers and that production has doubled or tripled in Ontario and Quebec over the past decade thanks to growing ethnic and gourmet markets. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.