It's incredible to me that, as a country with a great track record of digitising tedious government-imposed admin, we can't find a better solution to registering cattle than giving each one a numbered plastic earring and manually relaying the relationship between each numbered tag over the phone.
Why isn't the automated message telling them it will be quicker to do it via the website? EVERY automated phone message tells the caller they should be using a website!
It's incredible to me that, as a country with a great track record of digitising tedious government-imposed admin, we can't find a better solution to registering cattle than giving each one a numbered plastic earring and manually relaying the relationship between each numbered tag over the phone.
Some young New Zealand techies have invented a system that does this, called Halter
They don't get a subsidy so can't waste time on this nonsense so think about it ahead of time
Why isn't the automated message telling them it will be quicker to do it via the website? EVERY automated phone message tells the caller they should be using a website!
Whats wrong with daisy and dolly etc.