Guidance

Approved cattle ear tag suppliers

Cattle keepers must only buy ear tags from suppliers that have been approved by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

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Approved suppliers of cattle ear tags for cattle, bison and buffalo keepers.

Updates to this page

Published 27 February 2020
Last updated 28 July 2025 show all updates
  1. Removed Schippers UK Ltd from the approved suppliers list.

  2. Removed Farmrite Animal Health Ltd from the available list of ear tag manufacturers.

  3. ULTRA tags removed from list of available tags from Countryside Services ltd as requested by the supplier

  4. Added "UHF Z2 Large Flagto" under the secondary ear tags under the Datamars heading.

  5. Nordic Star ear tag manufacturer address updated

  6. Added Allflex Senior EID to be supplied as secondary only to Markrite Limited.

  7. Update to Shearwell Data Ltd adding BOS UHF Flag Tag available as a secondary tag only

  8. New Ear tag added to page for 鈥 Shearwell Data Ltd SDL EID Button Tag To be supplied as secondary only

  9. Ear tag suppliers updated.

  10. New tags added.

  11. New ear tags added for Shearwell

  12. New tags added for Tynedale Farm Services

  13. Removed Shearwell Data Ltd 'SDL Large Flag' Primary and Secondary tag

  14. New ear tags added for J&M Anderson.

  15. Shearwell SDL Large Flag Primary and Secondary tags added

  16. changing address for Caisley Eartag ltd Unit 22 Sycamore Business Park Copt Hewick Ripon North Yorkshire HG4 5DF

  17. Update to available cattle tags

  18. Updated available eartags

  19. Z Tag TST added to Primary and Secondary tags and MF13 tag removed for Datamars company.

  20. New tag added for Datamars Livestock - F5Z large HDX flag tag

  21. added new ear tag MF13 Tissue Tag Datamars

  22. Added new primary ear tag for J & M Anderson

  23. New tag added: Ear tag Manufacturer 鈥 Datamars Agri UK LTD, name of tag 鈥 Z2 Medium (this is a Primary and Secondary ear tag)

  24. First published.

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