Dr. Andrew Cromie:

There is an important lead-on point. There was a question about tissue tagging at birth. When one thinks about how this scheme is going to unfold, at any point in time towards the end of the scheme, all dams in herds will be genotyped, as will the stock bulls. The process of parentage identification or verification will be undertaken automatically at birth. One might be running two, three or four stock bulls in a large holding, but all one has to do is submit the tissue samples and the sire's and the dam's DNA will be disentangled with 100% accuracy. This is an example of the benefits the technology will ultimately bring to the industry.