The Livestock and Natural Resource Management Program focuses on efforts to keep range livestock and the rangeland itself healthy and productive. The program assists landowners through problem-solving research and by providing science based information that promotes good stewardship and sustainability.

UCCE's Livestock and Natural Resources Webpages 

Animal ID Workshop Handouts

• An introduction to Electronic Animal ID Systems & Comparison of Technologies
• Animal ID: Confidentiality of Information
• Animal ID: Liability Exposure & Risk Management
• Animal ID: Opportunities for Value-Added Marketing and Production Efficiencies.
• Benefits & Costs Associated with an Animal ID System for Cattle in the U.S.
• Cattle Identification and the National Animal ID System
• Challenges of Animal ID in the West
• Cover & Intro for Animal ID
• Cover Page
• Effects of Animal ID on Cattle Market Structure
• Emerging Management Systems in Animal ID
• ID INFO tech handout.pdf
• Obtaining A Premise ID Number in California
• Potential Benefits of Production Information to Cattle Producers
• Some Issues Related to Beef Traceability: Transforming Cattle into Beef in the U.S.
• The National ID System and Country-of-Origin Labeling: How are They Related?
• The National ID System: Basics, Blueprint, Time lines, and Processes
• Value of Individual Record Keeping to Commercial Livestock Operators
• Working With Animal ID Technology Providers

Jennie Lane is the Livestock & Natural Resources Program Advisor. She can be reached at the Lake County UCCE Office - 707-263-6838 or you can email her at jklane@ucanr.edu