National Animal Identification System hold one or more heads of livestock including horses, cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, deer and camels, though the NLIS will not confirm ownership of livestock. The system originates from a cattle-tracing system introduced in Australia in the 1960s to help fight bovine tuberculosis. The Australian system has over 11,000,000 phantom livestock in the system that do not exist. This system costs farmers money because of the increased handling time and lost margins when tags do not match in the system resulting in lower payments to farmers. New Zealand is planning a similar National Animal Identification and Tracing system. National Animal
American Society of Animal Science in convention centers jointly with the American Dairy Science Association (ASDA). ASAS holds yearly meetings for its Western Midwest, Southern and Northeast sections. ASAS has also held joint meetings with the Asociación Argentina de Producción Animal (AAPA), the Asociación Mexicana de Producción Animal (AMPA), the Canadian Society of Animal Science (CSAS), the Chinese Association of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine (CAAV), and the Poultry Science Association (PSA). ASAS regularly supports speaker exchanges with the European Federation of Animal Science (EAAP). In 2012, ASAS began hosting a National Academic Quadrathlon competition at its annual meeting. The Academic Quadrathlon is an undergraduate