Any feedlot, sale barn or  packing plant can participate in Cattle Trax as long as it meets the following conditions:

• First, the feedlot, sale barn, or packing plant must practice individual animal management. (Note: This does not mean all data need be collected and stored on an animal basis but any group data must be adjusted to an individual animal basis prior to exporting to Cattle Trax.)
• Second, the feedlot, sale barn, or packing plant management software being used to capture and record the data must be able to cross-reference it with an EID, because the EID is the “key” data field in Cattle Trax to which any data relevant to that particular animal is then attached. (Note: This does not mandate scanning of EIDs just the ability to cross-reference any visual ID to the electronic ID.)
• Finally, the feedlot, sale barn, or packing plant management software must be able to export the data in a standard format (tab-delimited or comma-delimited text, for example). 

If these three conditions are met, the following steps can be followed to enter feedlot, sale barn, or packing plant data into the Cattle Trax system:

• First, the feedlot, sale barn, or packing plant collects data as they normally do and record it using their management software program, making sure to cross-reference any collected data with an EID number.
• Then, once all the desired data has been collected, export the data to a standard-formatted file.
• Finally, email the exported data file to support@apeis.com.

The data should be imported and therefore accessible via the internet within one business day.

Most feedlots and sale barns can meet the above requirements. We have compiled a list of feedlots,  sale barns, and  packing plants that have been verified to meet these requirements and will work with Cattle Trax.