Flokk uniquely positioned to resolve livestock traceability standoff

Dawn Buschert, Alberta rancher, quoted at CBC.ca:

The readers are really expensive, said Buschert.

When you have small producers who are not going to pay thousands and thousands of dollars for a proper code reader and they’re going to enter it manually, there will be mistakes.

Kyle Hebert, Saskatchewan Cattle Association (SCA) finance chair, at producer.com::

One example was greater use of RFID tag readers, with a resolution introduced to have the provincial government offer all producers with a valid premises identification a rebate up to 50 per cent when purchasing a tag reader.

“The biggest thing that I see is, we need to have a tag system that works,” said Kyle Hebert, SCA finance chair.

“We need to get every producer a scanner, and we need CFIA to trust us and we need to be able to trust CFA. So those three things need to happen long before we make any changes.”

Kevin Boon, General Manager of the B.C. Cattlemen’s Association, at CBC.ca:

The industry started working on traceability in 2003, Boon explains, noting that bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) attuned them to the need to track livestock. …

Tracking movements doesn’t prevent disease, but does help prevent the spread, says Boon. He adds changes might help shorten border closures when animals are affected by tuberculosis or foot and mouth disease.

On 2026-01-08 a petition at change.org solicited support to “Stop the new regulations for CFIA traceability”. The petition now has 28,000 signatures. In response the CFIA on 2026-01-10 temporarily paused the proposed regulation amendment.

Flokk’s synopsis:

The majority of ranchers, from direct experience with the BSE crises, understand the need for universal and effective livestock animal traceability.
The deficiencies in livestock traceability must be resolved to retain, let alone expand, export market access. We know this from direct engagement with industry leaders and Government of Alberta.
Ranchers resisting the CFIA/CCIA program have legitimate grievance. The CFIA/CCIA strategy is confrontational, unresourced, imposes obsolete technology, and has been delayed so many times it has lost all credibility.

Four Alberta ranching families founded Flokk Systems in 2020 because we saw a challenge, but opportunity, in the disconnect between expectations of regulators and administrators regarding animal movement reporting (imminent in 2020, yet still imminent in 2026) and the capacity of ranchers to meet those expectations. With this disconnect having escalated to resistance, Flokk seized the initiative to draft “Accountability and innovation are required for Canada to secure livestock animal traceability” and circulate it to every relevant leader, public and private.

Demand for Flokk is proven, and corroborated, from independent sources.
Flokk’s solution was independently validated by Canada’s authoritative traceability administrator.
Flokk is uniquely positioned to serve the large and proven demand for a Canadian livestock herd digitization solution because Flokk has engaged every relevant stakeholder, including thousands of Canadian ranchers.