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RFID livestock tag market booming

From "Digital Angel Reports 1.9 Million Electronic RFID Livestock Tags Sold During 2005 - An Increase of 73 Percent Over 2004" (press release), 15 February:

"Digital Angel Corporation... announced that the total sales of its electronic RFID (radiofrequency identification) livestock tags increased by 73 percent in 2005 - to 1.9 million - compared to 2004. The Company also announced that the upward sales trend is accelerating to date in 2006 and that it had already received orders for approximately 1 million RFID livestock tags... As we get closer to full implementation of a National Identification Program in the US, retailers, producers and cattlemen in general are preparing for the evolution into RFID technology as a standard in the livestock tracking industry..."

[: 17 February 2006]

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