Your voluntary participation means that you will be notified quickly when a disease outbreak or other animal health event might put your animals at risk.
Choosing to participate ensures you will receive the information you need - when you need it most - to protect your animals and your investment.
With timely, accurate information, we can contain a disease outbreak or other animal health event more quickly and more effectively.
Rapid disease response limits the impact of the outbreak on your operation - and could even stop disease spread before it reaches your animals.
Rapid disease response reduces the number of producers impacted by a disease outbreak or other animal health event.
Fewer affected producers means less hardship associated with an outbreak or other animal health event- the loss of irreplaceable breeding stock and bloodlines, as well as the animal distress and loss resulting from the disease and the eradication effort.
Rapid response also reduces the economic strain (decreased incomes, lost jobs, loss of animals and livelihoods) on affected communities.
The faster the disease response, the faster an animal disease is isolated, the sooner life gets back to normal for everyone.
Choosing to participate demonstrates your total commitment to doing everything you can to protect your animals and your neighbors.
Choosing to participate in NAIS helps preserve the marketability of your animals - no matter where your markets are.
Prices are dictated by the overall demand for U.S. products. To maintain and protect prices for domestic commodities, it is crucial for international markets to stay open.
NAIS can help quickly define which regions of our country are, and are not, affected by an outbreak - keeping markets open for unaffected producers and preventing unnecessary movement restrictions.
Market demands are increasing in importance, and a number of other countries are already using animal ID systems to gain a competitive edge.
Voluntary participation helps ensure that you and other American producers stay competitive in domestic and international trade.
The greater the level of participation in NAIS, the greater the potential to expand your marketing opportunities at home and abroad.
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