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Shaping the Future of Livestock Traceability

Help Us Understand what you need from Tomorrow’s Livestock Information Systems
Our goal is to better understand what users need from a future livestock traceability system and ensure it delivers meaningful value to those who rely on it every day.

We're seeking your ideas, experiences, and priorities to help shape a system that is more intuitive, reduces duplicate data entry, supports your operational needs, and improves the overall user experience across the livestock industry.

Your feedback will help us identify:

· Opportunities to improve current processes and workflows.

· Ways to simplify data entry and reduce duplication.

· Features, tools, and integrations that would add the greatest value.

· Expectations around data ownership, privacy, security, and trust.

Thank you for taking the time to share your insights. Your feedback will play an important role in helping shape the future of livestock traceability in Canada.
Estimated completion time: 20–25 minutes
SECTION ONE: ABOUT YOU
At CCIA, we want to better understand who our users are, the roles you play within the livestock industry, and your unique needs. By learning more about your experience, priorities, and how you interact with the Canadian Livestock Tracking System (CLTS), we can better understand where you'd like the system to evolve and ensure future improvements deliver greater value to you.
1.Which option below best describes your role in the livestock industry?
2.Please Identify the province or region where your primary operation is located:
3.How often do you use or interact with digital livestock information or record-keeping systems? This could include entering, reviewing, updating or accessing livestock information in systems such as CLTS, herd management software or other digital platforms.
4.How do you currently report to the CLTS system? (Select all that apply)
SECTION TWO: DUPLICATE DATA ENTRY
The following questions relate to how you enter information into the Canadian Livestock Tracking System (CLTS) and any other software or record-keeping systems you use to manage your operation. We want to better understand where duplicate data entry occurs and identify opportunities to streamline these processes.
5.How often do you have to enter the same information more than once either within CLTS or across multiple systems?
6.Which types of information should only need to be entered once and then automatically reused or shared (with your permission)? (Select all that apply)
SECTION THREE: CURRENT STATE - UNDERSTANDING ISSUES
This section is designed to better understand your experience with today's reporting processes and information systems. We're interested in learning what works well, where you experience challenges, and how current systems support (or don't support) your day-to-day operations.

Your feedback will help us identify opportunities to simplify reporting, improve system usability, reduce administrative burden, and ensure future enhancements provide value beyond regulatory compliance.
Reporting Burden
7.When do you normally complete traceability reporting?
8.How would you describe the effort required to complete your reporting?
9.What are the biggest challenges or frustrations you experience with information reporting? (Select up to three)
10.What value, if any, do information systems provide to your operation beyond regulatory compliance? (Select all that apply)
SECTION FOUR: FUTURE STATE - REQUIREMENTS AND PRIORITIES
This section focuses on the characteristics and capabilities of an ideal future livestock information system. It is not intended to evaluate the current Canadian Livestock Tracking System (CLTS), but rather to identify the features, services, and functionality that would provide the greatest value to livestock producers and industry stakeholders in the future.

Your feedback will help identify priorities for reducing reporting burden, improving usability, enhancing data sharing and integration, increasing the value returned to users, and supporting efficient, secure, and trusted livestock traceability information management.
11.What would motivate you to use a livestock information system more frequently? (Select up to five)
12.Which improvements would most reduce the effort required to report and manage livestock information? (Select up to three)
13.How supportive would you be of a “Tell Me Once” approach, where information entered into one approved system is automatically shared with other authorized systems, eliminating duplicate reporting?
SECTION FIVE: DATA GOVERNANCE & TRUST
This section explores your confidence in how livestock traceability data is managed, shared, and protected. We want to better understand your level of trust in current data governance practices, who you believe should have access to your information, and any concerns you may have regarding privacy, transparency, and data sharing.

Your feedback will help inform future policies and governance frameworks that protect data while enabling appropriate and trusted use across the livestock industry.
14.Who would you like to have access to your data with your expressed permission? (Select all that apply)
As part of Canada’s livestock traceability system, Responsible Administrators (RAs), such as CCIA, have long maintained information required to support livestock identification and traceability. Depending on the species and reporting requirements, this can include information such as premises information, animal identification numbers, tag issuance and distribution records, animal movement information (e.g. move-ins required by feedlots in Alberta), and other reportable traceability events (e.g. slaughter, disposal, import, export).

This information is maintained to support the operation of the national traceability system, regulatory requirements, animal health response and related traceability activities. These types of records have historically formed part of the information held within traceability databases. In CCIA’s case this information has been held and kept secure and private in their database for several decades.

As traceability systems evolve, there is increasing discussion about how appropriately authorized use of traceability data could also provide additional value back to producers and the livestock industry, while maintaining appropriate privacy, security and data governance protections.
15.Which of the following best reflect your views or concerns regarding the management, use and sharing of traceability data? (Select all that apply)
SECTION SIX: FUTURE VISION
This final section looks ahead to the future of livestock information systems in Canada. We want to understand your long-term vision, identify the capabilities that would deliver the greatest value, and learn where you believe future investments should be focused.

Your input will help establish priorities for the next generation of livestock traceability systems, ensuring future enhancements align with the needs of producers, industry partners, and the broader livestock sector. We also invite you to share any additional ideas or recommendations that could improve traceability reporting in Canada.
16.From the list below, which five items do you think should be CCIA’s priorities for investment over the next five years? (Select up to five)
17.Which of the selected above is your highest priority?
18.If a future livestock information system could provide information back to you based on the data you report, which of the following would be most valuable? (Select up to five)
19.Is there any additional information or reporting that would make a livestock information system more valuable to you? (Up to 500 words)
20.If you could change one thing about traceability reporting tools (e.g., CLTS) in Canada, what would it be and why? (Up to 500 words)
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