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
British Society of Animal Science the society was renamed, and the journal retitled to "Animal Science". A partnership with Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) and European Federation for Animal Science publish the journal "Animal: An International Journal of Animal Bioscience". The journal is a merge of three journals including the BSAS journal "Animal Science", which was published six times a year. The society presents the Sir John Hammond Award at the annual conference. Recipients include: British Society of Animal Science British Society of Animal Science (BSAS) is a learned society in the field of animal science, established in 1944 as the British Society