Digital Angel Corporation Receives Orders for 1.2 Million Livestock Tags From Argentina Year-to-Date - Exceeds 2005 Full Year O

SO. ST. PAUL, Minn., March 21  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Digital Angel Corporation (AMEX:DOC), an advanced technology company in the field of rapid and accurate identification, location tracking, and condition monitoring of high-value assets, announced today that its Argentina subsidiary, Digital Angel SA, has already received non-cancelable orders for nearly 1.2 million visual cattle tags as of mid-March.  The total, which includes a new order of 175,000 tags, exceeds the total of 1.1 million orders for the entire year of 2005, the first year the Company entered the cattle tag market in the South American country.

Digital Angel President and Chief Executive Officer Kevin McGrath said the rapidly expanding orders demonstrates that the Company has established a significant presence in Argentina, one of the most important cattle markets in the world with an estimated 55 million head of cattle throughout the country.

"I am delighted by the success of our Argentine operation, particularly by the fact that we have already exceeded our entire 2005 output in just the first three months of 2006," McGrath said.  "We are focused on making Argentina a very strong and growing market for us and we have a very impressive professional team in place.  Their strong distribution network and dedication to customer service is obviously already paying dividends in terms of expanding our sales base.  Our goal is to be a major player in the cattle tags market in Argentina and other South American countries for many years to come."

About Digital Angel Corporation

Digital Angel Corporation develops and deploys sensor and communications technologies that enable rapid and accurate identification, location tracking, and condition monitoring of high-value assets.  Applications for the Company's products include identification and monitoring of humans, pets, fish, poultry and livestock through its patented implantable microchips; location tracking and message monitoring of vehicles and aircraft in remote locations through systems that integrate GPS and geosynchronous satellite communications; and monitoring of asset conditions such as temperature and movement, through advanced miniature sensors.

Digital Angel Corporation is majority-owned by Applied Digital Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSX).  For more information about Digital Angel, please visit http://www.digitalangelcorp.com/.

The statements in this press release that are not strictly historical, are "forward-looking" statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and are intended to be covered by the safe harbors created by these sections. The forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties and the actual results that the Company achieves may differ materially from these forward-looking statements due to such risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, Applied Digital Solutions, Inc. owns 55.4% of the Company's common stock, new accounting pronouncements regarding expensing of share based compensation may impact the Company's future results of operations, the Company may continue to incur net losses, infringement by third parties on the Company's intellectual property or development of substantially equivalent proprietary technology by the Company's competitors could negatively impact the Company's business, domestic and foreign government regulation and other factors could impair the Company's ability to develop and sell its  products in certain markets, the Company relies on sales to government contractors for its animal identification and search and rescue beacon products, and any decline in the demand by these customers for such  products could negatively affect the Company's business, the Company depends on a single production arrangement for its patented syringe-injectable microchips, and the loss of or any significant reduction in the production could have an adverse effect on the Company's business, technological change could cause the Company's products to become obsolete, the loss of one of the Company's principal customers could negatively impact the Company's net revenue, the Company's earnings will decline if the Company writes off goodwill and other intangible assts, options and warrants outstanding and available for issuance may adversely affect the market price of the Company's common stock, currency exchange rate fluctuations could have an adverse effect on the Company's sales and financial results, the Company depends on a small team of senior management.  A detailed statement of risks and uncertainties is contained in the Company's reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission, including in particular the Company's Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005.  Investors and stockholders are urged to read this document carefully. The Company can offer no assurances that any projections, assumptions or forecasts made or discussed in this release will be met, and investors should understand the risks of investing solely due to such projections.  The Company undertakes no obligation to revise any forward-looking statements in order to reflect events or circumstances that may arise after the date of this press release.

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            Michael Lucarelli (investors)                Len Hall (media)
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