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NAIT (National Animal Identification and Tracing) is a planned animal identification system that will link people, property and animals. The system will provide New Zealand livestock owners, processors and government with timely and quality information on the current location, movement history and other related attributes associated with livestock. |
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As the National Animal Identification and Tracing (NAIT) project moves forward, dairy farmers are encouraged to use the lead-in time to prepare for changes.
We are expecting the NAIT legislation to be passed in early 2012. Once this has happened, NAIT obligations for cattle will be mandatory from 1 July 2012.
Your NAIT obligations will be to:
- Tag your animals with NAIT-approved RFID tags
- Get your NAIT number by registering yourself and your farm or property with NAIT
- Register your animals with NAIT
- Record all off-farm movements of animals with NAIT.
The only exceptions are capital stock where a three-year transition period applies for animals not leaving the farm, and bobby calves going direct from farm of birth to slaughter. Bobby calves will continue to be identified with a direct to slaughter tag issued by the meat-processing company, rather than a NAIT tag.
Animals born after 1 July 2012 will need to be tagged and recorded within 180 days of birth unless the above transition period applies to them.
