A cattle ranching cooperative managing roughly 5,000 head across multiple pastures needed faster gate counts and reliable individual animal records for veterinary and traceability compliance.
The cooperative's pastures are spread across several properties, with cattle moved between grazing areas, weighing stations, and veterinary checkpoints multiple times per month. Staff previously relied on printed visual tags supplemented by LF wand readers that required scanning animals one at a time at close range. Gate counts during herd transfers took hours, individual animals were occasionally missed or double-counted, and matching field records to the cooperative's national livestock database required significant manual data entry.
RFIDEcho supplied UHF RFID Ear Tags for Cattle, factory-encoded to the cooperative's herd numbering scheme and pre-printed with sequential visual IDs for manual cross-checking. The UHF inlay, with a read range up to 10 m, lets gate-mounted readers count entire herds as they pass through pasture gateways without slowing animal movement, while the LF option preserves compatibility with the cooperative's existing handheld wands for individual veterinary checks. The 102 x 76 mm TPU tag's IP68 rating and -40 to 85 degC operating range held up through a full rainy season without degradation.
“We went from counting cattle by hand at every gate to letting the reader do it as the herd walks through. The tags have held up through mud, rain, and a full season of handling without a single failure we've noticed.”
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