Streamlined livestock movements

Learn how producer and livestock transporter, Grant Bulloch, is using electronic National Vendor Declarations (eNVDs) to make transporting livestock easier, faster and safer for everyone. 

From his Braidwood property in NSW’s Southern Tablelands Grant’s business, GB Livestock, runs more than 300 head, producing cattle bred for high fertility, longevity, and carcass quality.

As a livestock transporter, he can often be found in his B-Double, moving stock long distances across Australia’s east coast. For the past eight years, eNVDs have been making Grant’s life easier, as both a producer and a livestock transporter.

“The eNVD app provides everything you need to know about an animal on the fly and that’s invaluable,” he said.

“I love that if something changes last minute for a consignment - no problem! It’s really easy to update data through the app and provide real-time updates to everyone involved as the animal travels through the red meat supply chain.”

Benefits for transporters

“By going digital, you’re eliminating the need to stop and take a photo of an NVD, then send it to the receivers – it’s already been done and managed online,” Grant said. “Before stock even reaches the front gate, the paperwork is at the destination electronically.

“Also, you might have multiple drop off and pickups, and the app makes it so much easier to keep track of essential information compared to the old paper trail.”

Using the eNVD web-based system or mobile app offers significant benefits and savings for the whole supply chain, including:

• no damaged or lost paperwork
• receiving consignments ahead of time, direct to your mobile, computer or tablet
• receiving and handing over eNVDs without mobile signal or internet service
• Having the ability to text or email a PDF version of the eNVD
• all required documents being accessible in one place, so you can meet regulatory requirements.

The app also has contingencies for dropping off livestock when no one is available to receive. For instance, drivers can now add a comment to the consignment indicating when and where they delivered the stock.

Securing our future with digital compliance a

Grant believes it’s in the Australian industry’s best interest, to embrace new technology to stay ahead of the game at the highest level.

“Sure, new technology is one of those things that can take people, particularly older producers, a long time to get their head around but once it clicks, it makes day to day tasks far more efficient and business productivity goes up. You won’t regret it!”

He’s urging everyone from producers to livestock agents, processors to feedlot operators, livestock transport staff to saleyard personnel, to do their bit to strengthen integrity systems.

“There needs to be more of a focus on being part of the one industry where everyone plays a role for it to achieve overall success,” he said, “because just one biosecurity breach can tarnish the reputation of the whole industry.”