Progress 07/01/06 to 06/30/09
Outputs Fort Peck Community College partnered with Montana State University to provide new and important information that will enhance the ability of cattle livestock producers and the Tribal Council on the Fort Peck Reservation to respond effectively and profitably to market and potential regulatory requirements for the implementation of Animal Identification systems for cattle. Data has been collected and compared a list of various companies that are developing Animal ID technologies throughout the United States and foreign countries. A survey was developed to facilitate data collection from sale barns, sale rings, and feed lots to identify potential requirements for Animal Identification. This data is currently stored in a database, and was disseminated through outreach extension workshops. Beginning in October 2008 through May 2009 Fort Peck Community College hosted four different workshop to release research results. A total of 49 attended those workshops. PRODUCTS: This research project produced information of considerable value to the American Indian livestock producer. In addition, it must be noted that the project also has the potential to make substantial contributions to the scientific body of agricultural economics knowledge on the choice of marketing strategies and potential gains from Animal Identification. OUTCOMES: Data collection of animal identification systems from the United Kingdom, France, Canada and Ireland and extensive literature reviews were conducted to carry out the research of this project. These findings made it possible for the MSU research team to participate in the NAIS study and allowed for the FPCC and MSU research teams to provide information on the costs and benefits associated with the National Animal Identification System to 49 American Indian Producers, which is nearly one half of the American Indian producers on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES: The findings of this project were disseminated to American Indian producers and tribal members of the Fort Peck Reservation and other reservations through (a) a series of extension outreach seminars, (b) a series of briefing papers. The workshops and briefing papers addressed the following issues: Identify different technologies available for Animal ID; examine implications of each Animal ID system for marketing opportunities for producers on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation; assess the implications of a mandatory Animal ID system and the impacts on costs of production for producers on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation FUTURE INITIATIVES: Educational programs designed for advancing and promoting agricultural interests, have been part of institutional planning for the past ten years, and are a major part of the five-year strategic plan. The development and implementation of this program is based on research and survey results conducted throughout the institutional service area. The creation of this program will in itself be continuous, as producers become educated in animal identification for their livestock operation and legislation changes.
Impacts This research project will provide new and important information that will enhance the ability of cattle livestock producers and the Tribal Council on the Fort Peck Reservation to respond effectively and profitably to market and potential regulatory requirements for the implementation of animal identification systems for cattle. American Indian producers were able to increase their knowledge regarding the NAIS system and the impacts it could have on their farming and ranching operation. The developed can be used nationally for assessing the financially optimal approach to animal identification for American Indian producers, the project will also enhance the efficiency and profitability of cattle operations on other Reservations throughout the United States.
Publications
- Briefing Paper 99, NAIS for the United States andImplications in Montana. Brester and Smith, 2009.
- Costs and Benefits of NAIS Powerpoint,Brester and Smith, 2009
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Progress 07/01/06 to 06/30/07
Outputs We have partnered with Montana State University to provide new and important information on Animal Identification for American Indian Producers and the Tribal Council on the Fort Peck Reservation. We have collected and compared a list of various companies that are developing Animal ID technologies throughout the United States and foreign countries. A survey was developed to facilitate data collection from sale barns, sale rings, and feed lots to identify potential requirements for Animal Identification. This data is currently stored in a database, and will be disseminated at grant completion. FPCC and MSU have also identified options available for American Indian producers to comply with Animal Identification requirements. PRODUCTS: Products of this project will be a comparison of cost and benefits, and differences in technologies available to American Indian Producers. OUTCOMES: This research project will produce information of considerable value to the American Indian livestock producer. In addition, it must be noted that the project also has the potential to make substantial contributions to the scientific body of agricultural economics knowledge on the choice of marketing strategies and potential gains from Animal Identification. However there has been little analysis, either theoretical or empirical, of the determinants of the choice among sales procedures and the potential benefits and costs to producers of those different mechanisms. This is true in particular for the choice between the American Indian producers to electronically tag their livestock or choose not to because of economic doubt. This project will therefore provide genuinely new information that will add substantively to our knowledge of these types of decisions concerning animal identification. DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES: The findings of this project will be disseminated to American Indian producers and tribal members of the Fort Peck Reservation and other reservations through (a) a series of extension outreach seminars, (b) a series of briefing papers, and (c) a research paper targeted to peer-reviewed articles. The workshops and briefing papers will address the following issues: Identify different technologies available for Animal ID; examine implications of each Animal ID system for marketing opportunities for producers on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation; assess the implications of a mandatory Animal ID system and the impacts on costs of production for producers on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation FUTURE INITIATIVES: Educational programs designed for advancing and promoting agricultural interests, have been part of institutional planning for the past ten years, and are a major part of the five-year strategic plan. The development and implementation of this program is based on research and survey results conducted throughout the institutional service area. The creation of this program will in itself be continuous, as producers become educated in animal identification for their livestock operation.
Impacts This research project will provide new and important information that will enhance the ability of cattle livestock producers and the Tribal Council on the Fort Peck Reservation to respond effectively and profitably to market and potential regulatory requirements for the implementation of animal identification systems for cattle. By developing a model that can be used nationally for assessing the financially optimal approach to animal identification for American Indian producers, the project will also enhance the efficiency and profitability of cattle operations on other Reservations throughout the United States.
Publications
- No publications reported this period
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