 So we're here today at Duck Island Partners near Keith in the south-east of South Australia with James Darling, the owner and Stuart Ravaz, the manager, looking at the use of EID to make management decisions outside of the use of EID for regulation purposes. Being able to identify individual animals in your herd, ones that are making the most money and ones that are making the least money, can help you make coal decisions and improve the overall profitability of your herd. So we were one of the first people to take up electronic tags when they became available, probably before they became mandatory. And they were always a guarantee for us. Every time animals went over the scales, which was every time they went down the race, those EIDs would record the animal, they would give us a weight, and they would be entirely accurate. You could rely on them. Rather than trying to read management tags, which might have been covered in hair or cow poo or fading, might have come out. So having two tags in an animal is always helpful. It's hardly ever that we've experienced losing both tags at the same time. Basically what I'm using here is a Gallagher TSI with basically their software to be able to weigh the animals and import all the information I suppose. And just with a panel reader on the side. The electronic tag gets put in at about, well probably three months, three months of age. When we carve everything gets a management tag straight at basically birth and then come in not long after that, once everything's finished carving, get a EID after that. The machine is very good, but it's only as good as the information that I download onto it. So the information is, as I said, you can track their percentages, you could draft them on percentage, you could draft them on weight, and yeah, it really comes down to the information that I've put on there. So basically this gives their life data that I've entered into the computer. So it tells you the date of birth of this cow, who's its mother is, who's its father is, what percentage breakup it is. So this animal here is 50% Angus, 35% Cementile, and 14% Hereford. And then it's a black composite, which is black with a little bit of white on its face. It's empty weight at that stage was 485 kilos and so on basically. So it just gives you a rundown of its history or what is basically all that information I've had to put on from the farm computer. And at the same time as what I'm doing here is the machine here is I'm entering in its batch number and its date of when it was drenched. So I've got a record then of basically its treatments for its life as I weigh them and drench them. If we'd normally would draft them in the round yard, so if we're having to do it in the round yard, we're having an extra person to be able to deal with it. This way we can just feed them through the race, draft them left right, depending on where they are with drenches and what have you. But only once I've done worked in the yards, I'll take this information back to the computer in the office. I can then work out ages, weights at weaning time, animals that might not be really doing as well as they should be. I'll take those lighter weight ones off and leave the heavier weights. When a herd goes over the scales, Stuart will take that recorder to his office. He will download everything under our computer file which is stock books. He saw a computer system that deals very well with crossbreeding and composite breeding which is essential for us and then that can be used in whatever way we consider best. In a herd, if there are one or two non-performing animals and we can see it and the NLR tag makes that very clear, then we take them off and we have a cul-herd and we're always running a cul-herd. We sold a cul-truck last week. My cows in the market sold for over $1700. What's the cost of an EID in comparison with that? Trivial. It's unthinkable for us to be able to run our operation without EIDs. While Stuck Island are using quite a sophisticated system within their yards, a smaller producer doesn't necessarily have to have such a sophisticated system and you could capture data using a wand and a basic Excel spreadsheet and still make some really good decisions. I'd like to thank James Darling and Stuart Ravaz for their time today and allowing us to film their cattle whilst they're undertaking some cattle work here with the EID and seeing that in action today.