Property-to-property livestock transfers

Livestock traceability underpins Victoria’s reputation for quality produce, serves to protect and enhance our export market access, and provides customers with increased confidence in the safety and origin of Victorian food and fibre products.

The National Livestock Identification System (NLIS) is Australia’s system for the identification and tracking of cattle, sheep and goats for food safety, disease control, animal welfare and market access purposes.

The recording of property-to-property (P2P) movements is an important part of lifetime traceability and it is the responsibility of livestock producers and industry to ensure livestock movements are recorded promptly and correctly.

After cattle, sheep or goats are moved between properties with two different Property Identification Codes (PICs), including livestock arriving on agistment and livestock sold via online selling platforms, it is the responsibility of the buyer/receiver to notify the NLIS database of the movement.

The buyer/receiver may engage someone else to notify the database on their behalf, including the person who dispatched the livestock or a stock agent.

The database transfer must be completed within two days of the arrival of the cattle, sheep or goats.

Producers with more than one property could consider uniting their properties under a single PIC if they are managed as a single entity.

This removes the need to record livestock movements between those properties.

When livestock are bought or sold through a saleyard, cattle scale operator, public auction conducted on-farm, or sold directly to an abattoir, it is the responsibility of the person operating the business to notify the NLIS database.

For further information on recording P2P movements visit the NLIS website at www.nlis.com.au, call the NLIS Helpdesk on 1800 654 743, or email support@nlis.com.au

Market report for the 29th and 30th May

With a very cold and wet day there was decreased demand in a smaller yarding of 166, which is 82 less on last week, where good cattle in short supply sold well and secondary cattle the demand was not there.

138 vealers sold to 336.6 and averaged 230.1 and per head average $738.47.

21 heifers sold to 274.2 cents and averaged 222.2 and per head average $986.31.

The yard average of 164 head 223.1 and per head average $750.60.

Thursday’s cow and bull sale had 575 cows, 34 bulls and 32 steers which sold to good demand with a full field of buyers in a market that was firm for good cows and stronger on lighter cows than last week.

The bull sale where the better finished bulls sold to good demand with the yarding which had some lighter beef and dairy bulls which sold to good demand to go back to the paddock.

575 cows sold to 280 cents and averaged 164.3 and per head average 791.15.

34 bulls sold to 249.2 cents and averaged 202.5 and per head average 1072.76.

32 steers sold to 235.2 cents and averaged 209.4 and per head average 1069.63.

Yard average for 641 cattle was 168.9 and per head average 819.99.

Vealers 1 Char 2 Lim 1 Lim 1 Lim 1 Ang 1 Lim Heifers 1 Ang IM Stoll, Drouin 2 Ang IM Stoll, Drouin 4 Ang IM Stoll, Drouin Beef Cows 1 M/G Coddiwomple Cattle N/Sth 1 CharX J&J Farmer, Drouin 1 Ang T&W Stammers, Neerim E 1 Ang R&L Newnham, Tominbuk 1 Lim N Kelly, Longwarry 1 CharX A1 Holdings, Drouin 1 Ang J Dickinson, Iona 1 Ang A&M McDonald, Yarragon Dairy Cows 1 Frn KJ&LF Webb, Gainsborough 670 1 Frn D&T Robertson, Yarragon 690 1 Frn G&H Kestle, Lardner 590 1 Frn Moover P/L, Drouin Sth 545 2 Frn G Battlry, Yarragon 613 Steers

2 Frn 10 Frn Bulls 1 Lim 1 San

R&G Tett, Bega TK&MA Johnson, Mt View TK&MA Johnson, Mt View J Dickinson, Iona TK&MA Johnson, Mt View J&K Fry, Bunyip RE&EM Penny, Cloverlea EW Ferguson, Buln Buln

M Maskell, Poowong 890 249.2 2217 D&C Cropley, Nilma Nth 900 232.2 2089

1. NGL, 2. Elders, 3. Scotts, 4.

Landmark, 5. SEJ.

390 345 365 325 360 345

545 405 494

510 685 700 665 635 515 625 545 480 668

336.6 330.0 321.6 314.6 310.6 290.2

274.2 270.2 269.2

264.0 240.0 233.6 233.6 233.6 226.0 218.0 218.0

212.0 208.0 208.0 180.0 209.6

235.2 227.2

1312 1138 1173 1022 1118 1001

1494 1094 1329

1346 1644 1635 1553 1483 1163 1362 1188

1420 1435 1227 981 1285

1128 1517