Livestock will need ID to be on display at fairs
Published December 14th, 2007
To show livestock or horses at state, county, 4-H or FFA fairs next year, presenters will have to provide a “premises identification number” that specifies where the animal is usually kept.
Officials with the Illinois Department of Agriculture, which announced the new requirement a little more than a month ago, say it will enable them to react faster if an animal-disease outbreak occurs. They say the ID numbers will let them more quickly pinpoint the locations of animals that might have come into contact with a diseased animal.
“It’s basically a 911 for livestock-disease protection,” said Jim Kunkle, the department’s manager of emergency programs and animal identification administrator.
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