Summary
RFID in Agriculture provides the reader with an understanding of RFID and its current and future use in agriculture systems, processes, and procedures.
This report reveals the path traversed by RFID, evaluating some of the most important implementations of RFID within the agriculture and food industries. Throughout this report there are real life facts with figures so that the reader can judge the situation more clearly and vividly.  The report also focuses on some of the key players in the RFID case study examples and implementation details.

Table of Contents
Introduction.. 5
Standards for RFID in Agriculture.. 7
Standardization Organizations and Processes. 8
Basic Organizations. 8
Standard development organizations. 9
Commercial organization. 10
Standardization Business Models. 12
Standardization of the Radio Frequency Spectrum.. 14
Low Frequency Band. 15
Short Wave Band. 16
High Frequency Band. 17
UHF Band. 18
Microwave Frequency Band 2.45 GHz. 19
Radar& HIPERLAN Frequency Band. 20
Standards and Inter-Operability Issues. 22
Recent Trends and Issues. 22
RFID in Agriculture-Latest Developments. 26
RFID implementation Case Studies. 29
Case Study-Cattle and Livestock Tracking Project. 30
Location-New Zealand. 30
Analysis. 30
Case Study-Meat Production Maintenance Unit. 33
Location-Norway. 33
Analysis. 33
Case Study-Monitoring Food Shipment with RFID.. 39
Location-United States of America. 39
Analysis. 39
Case Study-Minimizing Timber Movement cost in Forestry. 45
Location-Germany. 45
Analysis. 45
Case Study-Food Contamination-Beef Processing Plant. 53
Location-Canada. 53
Analysis. 53
Case Study-Animal Identification System.. 58
Location-United States of America. 58
Analysis. 58
Case Study-Food Processing and Vending Operations. 62
Location-United States of America. 62
Analysis. 62
Case Study-Agricultural Equipment Monitoring for Farmers. 65
Location-United States of America. 65
Analysis. 65
Case Study-Automated Food Quality. 68
Location-Japan. 68
Analysis. 68
Case Study-RFID in Dairy. 72
Location-United States of America. 72
Analysis. 72
Case Study-Quality Control in a Cheese Manufacturing Plant. 77
ocation-Germany. 77
Analysis. 77
Case Study-Harvests and Transport Monitoring in Farms. 81
Location-United States of America. 81
Analysis. 81
RFID Company Analysis. 86
Texas Instruments. 87
IBM.. 89
Motorola. 91
ThingMagic Inc. 94
UPM Raflatac. 95
Alien Technology. 97
Intermec. 99
Zebra Technologies. 102
WhereNet. 104
Impinj, Inc. 106
Identec Solutions. 108
Conclusion