BY Rural Radio Network Staff | January 12, 2021
Dawson County Cattlemen continued their tradition of monthly meetings in 2021 hosting a meal, speaker and meeting at Kirk’s in Lexington on January 7th. Dawson County Cattlemen’s President Jonathan Garwood presided over the event and was excited to see the large turnout. Garwood commented, “It was nice to see everyone given the struggles many encountered in 2020.”
The keynote speaker for the evening was Brandon Depenbusch with US Cattle Trace. Depenbusch highlighted that US Cattle Trace is a producer lead initiative to have a searchable database or search engine of US cattle. The cattle could be tracked through the production chain with EID ear tag technology. When the cattle moved locations or transferred ownership four data points would could be transmitted to US Cattle Trace. In a disease outbreak event the database c