Abstract

Livestock Improvement Corporation (LIC) has a world leading capability in individual animal recording of which MINDA is the product that is most often associated with traceability. MINDA annually handles many millions of transactions that relate to individual animals, herds, farms, and the people who are associated with them. Currently, it is primarily a dairy application but other species are represented. MINDA already captures data that are required for traceability (lifetime ID, birth, death, movements, health records) on a central database, and does so using a variety of tools that suit all customer profiles. LIC systems include a trace forward/back functionality, integrated with existing internal GIS systems.

C, Purcell

Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production, Volume 65, Christchurch, 88-90, 2005