PIC INFO:

Your place (property) must be registered with the Queensland DPI&F if you keep one or more head of horses, cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, buffalo, deer, camelids (camels, llama, alpaca), or 100 or more poultry including caged birds. If you are a cattle, sheep, pig or goat producer, or work in the livestock industry, you are required to observe NLIS requirements.

NLIS INFO:

NLIS is the identification and traceability system for livestock. NLIS allows individual animals to be identified and tracked from their property of birth through to slaughter. Lifetime traceability improves product integrity and market access (particularly for export markets), and assists with the management of disease and chemical residue issues.

We can supply NLIS tags from Leader Products to suit your needs and animals types. Further info is available at www.leaderproducts.com.au

CATTLE:

The National Livestock Identification System (NLIS) traces cattle movements nationwide for their lifetime. Tracking movements helps improve food safety, product integrity and market access, particularly for the export market, and can also reduce the economic impact of disease.
All cattle transfers between properties, starting from when they leave their property of birth, must be recorded in the NLIS database.

SHEEP:

The National Livestock Identification System (NLIS) has been developed to improve the consistency and effectiveness of tracing farmed livestock within Australia. Tracking movements helps improve food safety, product integrity and market access, particularly for the export market, and can also reduce the economic impact of disease.
For sheep, the NLIS records animal movements between property identification codes (PICs), by using visually readable ear tags printed with your PIC and the NLIS logo, in conjunction with the national vendor declaration (NVD)/waybill system. The ear tag stays with the animal for life and cannot be removed. Post-breeder tags for subsequent properties may be applied; animals may have multiple tags if they have lived on a number of properties.
Tags that contain electronic microchips may be used within the NLIS provided they also show the PIC of the place where the tag was applied. Registration of the microchip numbers to the first property of issue in a database by the tag manufacturer is also required. There is no requirement to record movements of individual animals between PICs as is the case for the NLIS for cattle.

GOATS:

The National Livestock Identification System (NLIS) has been developed to improve the consistency and effectiveness of tracing livestock within Australia. Tracking movements helps improve food safety, product integrity and market access, particularly for the export market, and can also reduce the economic impact of disease. Full NLIS requirements for goats came into effect on 17 October 2008.
For goats, the NLIS records animal movements between property identification codes (PICs), by using visually readable ear tags printed with your PIC and the NLIS logo, in conjunction with the national vendor declaration (NVD)/waybill system. The ear tag stays with the animal for life and cannot be removed. Post-breeder tags for subsequent properties may be applied; animals may have multiple tags if they have lived on a number of properties.
Tags that contain electronic microchips may be used within the NLIS provided they also show the PIC of the place where the tag was applied. Registration of the microchip numbers, issued for the first property of issue in a database by the tag manufacturer, are also required. For registered stud dairy goats, an approved tattoo may be used as an alternative to an ear tag. Tattoos must be approved by DPI&F's Chief Inspector of Stock. Only those tattoos that have been issued by the Dairy Goat Society of Australia will be approved. There is no requirement to record movements of individual animals between PICs as there is with the NLIS for cattle.

For more information regarding the PIC and NLIS, please visit www.dpi.qld.gov.au and www.nlis.com.au