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  2. National Sheep Association - Wikipedia

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    It was formed in 1892 [2] as the National Sheep Breeders Association. [3] In 1969 it changed to its present name. It was initially established to facilitate communication between progressive breeders and improve sheep breeding management as well as provide a unified voice for the sheep industry. The association is a registered charity. [4]

  3. National Animal Identification System - Wikipedia

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    Farmers must register their property if they hold one or more heads of livestock including horses, cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, deer and camels, [26] though the NLIS will not confirm ownership of livestock. [27] The system originates from a cattle-tracing system introduced in Australia in the 1960s to help fight bovine tuberculosis. [28]

  4. NSIS - Wikipedia

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    National Sheep Identification System, the implementation in Ireland for the identification and registration of ovine and caprine animals; Network Store Interface Service, a Microsoft Windows service; Next Steps in Signaling, a former Internet Engineering Task Force working group

  5. National Sheep Identification System - Wikipedia

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    The National Sheep Identification System (NSIS) is a government regulation-based system in Ireland for identifying sheep. It was introduced as part of the EU -wide system for the identification and registration of ovine and caprine animals in December 2003.

  6. U.S. Sheep Experiment Station - Wikipedia

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    In addition to lambs and other attendant sheep, the station has a base flock of 3,000 mature sheep. [2] Breeds developed at the U.S. Sheep Experiment Station include: The Columbia, a dual-purpose breed and one of the first originating in the U.S. Early crosses were made in Wyoming, but the originating flock was moved to the USSES in 1918.

  7. Ear tag - Wikipedia

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    The National Livestock Identification System (NLIS) is Australia's system for tracing cattle, sheep and goats from birth to slaughter. In Canada, the Health of Animals Regulations require approved ear tags on all bison, cattle and sheep that leave the farm of origin, except that a bovine may be moved, without a tag, from the farm of origin to a ...

  8. New Mexico Livestock Board - Wikipedia

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    The New Mexico Livestock Board maintains regulatory control over livestock now includes cattle, horses, mules, donkeys (burros), goats, sheep, pigs, bison, poultry, ratites (notably ostriches), camelids (notably llamas) and farmed deer. [1] The regulatory authority does not include farmed fish, nor dogs or cats. [1]

  9. National Sheep Industry Improvement Center - Wikipedia

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    National Sheep Industry Improvement Center — The Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-127) established a revolving fund of up to $50 million, to be used by a new, eventually privatized, center that aims to revive the declining U.S. sheep and goat industries through loans and loan guarantees for such activities as improving production and marketing methods ...