Though barcodes are more widely celebrated, bark codes do get some love—rather specialized love. These two reports make both of those facts almost clear. The Value of Bark Codes: “Discounts for Bark, Color, and Trash in Cotton: Evidence from the Texas-Oklahoma Market,” Dale Shaw, Carlos Engels, Jeff Brown, and Don Ethridge, Proceedings of the Beltwide Cotton […]
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Printing on rodents’ tails (new patent)
“Animals have been marked for identification purposes for hundreds, if not thousands, of years.” – explains a new US patent awarded to Somark Innovations, Inc. of San Diego, California. The firm’s invention (marketed under the name Labstamp ® ) relates to the marking, for ID purposes, of animals, where the animal might be, say, a […]