KANSAS CITY, KAN. - As of January 1, 2015, all breeding swine stock will be required by packers and processors to obtain official premises identification number (PIN) tags.
According to the National Pork Board, these official PIN tags are being used in an effort to improve pre-harvest traceability and disease prevention.
All breeding stock will be required to have the official PIN tags before they enter harvest channels; feeder pigs, growers or market hogs are not required to have the tags.
