Win-Win of a BIXS query

Maintaining producer participant confidentiality is paramount to BIXS and the CCA. To empower BIXS to become an effective tool the system must possess a query function. In short, this means packers, feedlots, auction markets and buyers who become participants in good standing of the BIXS program can use the system to enhance customer service, seek out supplies of cattle and build relationships with suppliers of those cattle based on desired specifications.

Cow-calf BIXS participant confidentiality is maintained through the search function. Cow-calf producers ultimately decide whether they wish to connect with searching or query participants. All BIXS participants wishing to launch a query must adhere to the terms and conditions for querying the BIXS database. Here’s how it works:

For example, let’s say a BIXS member feedlot, buyer or packer is looking for Angus-cross cattle born no earlier than March 2nd that have been vaccinated with a specific product or products with a weaning weight within a specified weight range.

The BIXS member feedlot, buyer or packer must provide this query or search parameter to the BIXS Program Administrator along with their complete contact information. The Program Administrator analyzes the database according to the query parameters.



BIXS cow-calf participant members with cattle in their inventory matching the query specs are then supplied the contact information of that BIXS member feedlot, buyer or packer. It is then the sole discretion of the BIXS cow-calf member participant to contact the searcher.


Those launching a query of the BIXS database will not have access to contact information of any cow-calf producer nor will the query participant, the searcher, be informed of the outcome of the program administrator’s analyses of the database regarding the query parameters.  In this way BIXS maintains producer confidentiality yet empowers the system to act as a business tool for users.

At the onset BIXS will enable queries based on the following parameters:

• Animal birthdates/date ranges
• Breed/crossbreed
• Colour
• Castration date/method
• Weaning weight/weight range
• Vaccination date(s) / product(s)
• Certified Immunization program
• VBP registered and audited operations

At the auction market level the BIXS query process offers the potential to package cattle based on specific individual animal information like verified age, vaccination status and histories, VBP on-farm food safety program animals and more. The CCA is currently working on getting EU export certification protocols rationalized in Canada. This would mean EU export certified cattle could trade through auction markets and BIXS EU export certified animals could become an important auction market niche.



BIXS is built on the belief that by measuring, capturing and exchanging individual animal information, and then using the data to make decisions, tremendous opportunity for improvements will result.