With the tag season coming to an end, the number of empty BVD tissue tags stands at 15,348 compared to 17,335 at this point in 2019.

The empty rate is 0.80% compared to 0.93% in June 2019.

The total for 2019 was 22,028, down from the peak of 31,133 in 2018. The empty rate in 2019 was 1.33%.

In 2016 the total of empty tags was 13,720 which was an empty rate of 0.59%. The figures are published by Animal Health Ireland.