Food Company Pilots UHF RFID to Enhance Pig Life History

Food Company Pilots UHF RFID to Enhance Pig Life History

Tönnies Livestock’s RFID technology is tracking the life cycles of about 100,000 pigs from birth to slaughter, to identify their health and treatments as they are born, fattened and butchered, thereby creating a health identification for each animal and providing analytics for farmers so they can adjust their methods.

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