Yes, and actually I apologize for not remembering that one; that's one of the most recent ones when you talk about federal involvement. Tags and technology are huge issues for traceability. We have almost two things happening here within our cattle and livestock industry in Canada, and that is an increased demand for traceability, but really it's trackability in some ways. There's this desire to know every place that animal has been, every minute of its life. Technology is not allowing us to do that.
Until it does, we have to use that common sense approach as to how we do it. With tags, because of our environment, we definitely have some challenges--for example, retention: the strings on the bailer twines will pull them off if they're not in right; trees will pull them off. We have to understand that while that animal is on its original place, it's fine and it doesn't need it. We have to put trust in the owners and in the fact that there is research being done. The Canadian Cattle Identification Agency is in the middle of a program doing three-year tests to try to increase that retainability. There is also readability.
I think one thing I want to put in this—and that's part of this research and development—is that we will get a lot better results if we can tie it to a market value and to our value chain. We can utilize that little tag now and that RFID number for value adding, for tracing some of that information to know what the vaccination standards are, to know that they're on a verified beef program, to know what kind of feed they've been on—have they been on grass, have they been on grain, have they had hormones? Those things are extremely important, and if we can put value to that, there is no need to worry about tracing these cattle through because the ranchers and the feedlots and the processors will do it on their own because there's value to it.