Benefits of radio frequency identification device (RFID) technology

You can gain many on-farm benefits from using radio frequency identification device (RFID) technology.

These include:

• automated drafting of animals meeting pre-defined conditions
• accurate recording of production details about individual animals, such as using this data to support management decisions, including:
  - regularly weighing animals to sell at optimum individual weight
  - tracking treatments
  - recording breeding information
  - measuring milk production

To gain these on-farm benefits, you will need a further investment in RFID technology, over and above NAIT-approved RFID ear tags. Such further investment, however, is not mandatory under the NAIT scheme.