Record systems for beef stocker production enterprises.

Abstract

The accelerated growth of individual animal identification systems is likely to generate significant amounts of data that need to be synchronized, filtered, analyzed, managed, and acted on in real time by data-mining software and animal health professionals who possess a dual understanding of beef systems production and technology associated with management information and record-keeping systems. Ultimately, the resulting information can be used seamlessly throughout a vertically coordinated production system to conduct management and animal health compliance audits, initiate timely animal and product recall measures, and reveal complex biologic and economic relations.