There were 40,500 heads of breeding ewes belonging to 21 different breeds involved in official data collection and performance recording in Hungary at the beginning of 1997. The present data collection system, different levels of automation and the possible future of the whole automation are summarized in this study. Obtention of the different equipments necessary for automation of data collection in performance recording has just been started in Hungary. There is only one experimental dairy sheep farm in the country where this data collection is automated in milk production.