Mr. Sean Coughlan:

On the dairy side, during the spring season when farmers are having bulls genotyped, the turnaround time is approximately three weeks. Given the volumes that will be involved, the turnaround time will not be three weeks. I think it was Deputy Bobby Aylward who mentioned waiting for the results on a bull. Where the sire and the dam of a calf are genotyped, one can very quickly match and verify the ancestry. Where the parents' genotypes are not available, there is another extensive process. That is the situation to which the Deputy was presumably referring. It is probably related to a pedigree animal. A pedigree certificate was needed and it took a while to get it because there was the imputing of microsatellites. It is an extensive process, but as we go through it and have more and more animals genotyped, the turnaround time will drop dramatically.