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[Gerald Leach, Chairman, Ouyen Livestock Exchange] Electronic tagging for sheep has been talked about for years but its now also about 18 months since the Minister made the announcement

that Victoria was going to go with mandatory electronic tagging for sheep. So there has

been a lot of work happen in the meantime, a lot of planning with what we see going

up here in Ouyen, we see it all coming to fruition.

[Ben Wilkinson, Aleis Australia] The key feature to this particular reader

is that it has been placed in an area to allow the user to capture the reads

just through the normal process that would follow in the saleyard.

We haven't had to move the sheep or change the process at all.

We are just capturing the reads and adding really no extra time.

A tag can be read in 60 milliseconds.

[Gerald Leach] Currently its really important from a biosecurity perspective

Thats really been the main driver, because we have seen in other countries, particularly

in Europe, where they have had exotic disease outbreaks, to be able to use electronic tagging

has made an enormous difference in terms of the traceability.

I'm both a farmer and a saleyard operator or manager, chair of the board of Ouyen Livestock Exchange.

On farm it has enormous benefits in terms of productivity increases, being able to measure

the performance of individual sheep from a breeding perspective.

Its got enormous use already in that regard.

But I think now that its mandatory, that everybody has the electronic tags, we will

see a far greater uptake of that husbandry and management aspect that will increase productivity quite substantially.

[Narrator] Authorised by the Victorian Government, 1 Treasury Place Melbourne