National Pork Producers Council and SDPPC encourage all pork producers to register their premises as part of a National Swine ID System.  To register your South Dakota premises, visit the South Dakota Animal Industry Board website. 

 
Facts about premises identification
•  Premises registration is the first of three steps included in the National Animal Identification System.

•  A premises is a location on a map and does not provide livestock ownership information.

•  Since 1988, the swine industry has had a working animal identification system in place for hogs moved in interstate commerce.

•  The pork industry adopted a premises identification system during the national pseudorabies eradication effort.

•  Information used in premises registration will be banked at the state level and will only be used in case of an animal health emergency.

•  The swine-specific identification standards do not require individual identification of each pig.

Benefits of registering your premises
•  Animal health officials can rapidly assess the number of farms and animals affected or at risk in case of an animal health emergency.

•  Animal health officials inform premises about how to protect their herds if they are in the vicinity of a highly contagious animal disease outbreak.


The National Institute for Animal Agriculture has a document containing more information, questions and myths surrounding animal identification, www.animalagriculture.org.

This information obtained from the National Pork Checkoff website, find more at www.pork.org.