VICTORIAN producers, staff and agents at the Hamilton Regional Livestock Exchange created an Australian record – with 59,487 electronic National Livestock Identification System (NLIS) tags scanned on sheep sold at the sale on December15, 2021.

During December 2021, approximately one million electronic NLIS (sheep and goats) tags were read in Victorian saleyards and abattoirs, with movements uploaded to the NLIS database demonstrating wide-spread successful adoption by the industry.