Estimates the market value of dairy feed ingredients
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Link to the video.Evaluates grouping strategies for feeding lactating dairy cattle
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Link to the video.Calculates the econnomic value of using Optigen® with lactating cows. Optigen® replaces a user-defined source of protein and adds a user-defined source of energy
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Link to the video.Maximizes the income over feed supplement cost (IOFSC) for afixed amount of forage used in the diet and graphs the IOFSC to asubstitution of two selected feed supplements
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Benchmarks feed costs and income over feed cost (IOFC) for a group of participating herds
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Link to the video.Calculates the income over feed cost (IOFC), the marginal value of milk to corn, and the optimal level of corn usage for defined milk price, feed costs, and stage of lactation
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Link to the video.Calculates the income over feed cost (IOFC), the marginal value of milk to corn, and the optimal level of corn usage for defined milk price, feed costs, and stage of lactation
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Link to the video.Estimates the break-even milk production needed to pay for a ration feed additive ingredient
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Link to the video.Simple and quick assessment of the ingredients that will provide the least cost of a diet under current feed ingredient prices and selected nutrients.
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Link to the video.Calculates the true heifer pregnancy rate of a herd.
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Link to the video.Evaluates the use of accelerated heifer feeding programs with respect to conventional feeding programs
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Link to the video.Estimates the difference of the net present value of various sexed semen reproductive programs and a conventional semen reproductive program for dairy heifers
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Link to the video.Calculates the number of heifers needed as replacement to maintain constant the herd size in the long-term
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Calculates the total cost of raising heifers in three points in time: at 12 months, 24 months, and after 24 months
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Link to the video.Simulates on a monthly basis the dynamics of a dairy herd population, including the future make-up of the herd
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The UWCU-DairyRepro$Plus is a PC-Based tool that implements a complex daily Markov chain model inspired on Giordano et al., 2012 (J. Dairy Science 95:5442) that simulates all cows in a herd and their economics, and computes the net return associated to reproductive performance parameters.
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Calculates the projected net return of a cow or the entire herd.
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Link to the video.Estimates the difference of the net present value of various sexed semen reproductive programs and a conventional semen reproductive program for dairy heifers
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Link to the video.Combines novel lactation curve definitions with key economic figures to help dairy producers explore the impact of pregnancy timing on milk Income Over Feed Cost.
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Link to the video.Simulates a dairy herd and their replacements for nine lactations: from the moment of the first calving to the ninth parturition
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Link to the video.Retention Pay-Off (RPO) Calculator
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It helps to estimate the economic benefit of increasing a dairy herd’s 21d pregnancy rate.
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This Genomic Test Tool is designed to help Jersey dairy farmers decide whether to use genomic testing on their heifer calves.
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This tool finds the best parameters of a function that explains milk production by days postpartum based on observed data points.
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The DE-DSS is designed to help dairy producers explore “what-if” situations as they predict changes in dairy production and expansion. Dairy producers using the tool are able to forecast changes in herd structure for all calves, heifers, and cows.
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Link to the video.Estimates the economic benefit (or loss) of a change in the milking frequency from 2 times a day (2X) to 3 times a day (3X) based on user-defined parameters
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Compares Wisconsin benchmark lactation curves with your own data. Benchmarks for 18,000 to 30,000 lb/cow/year of RHA and for parities 1, 2, 3 and higher from 3.6 million records provided by Wisconsin AgSource Cooperative Services
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Link to the video.Evaluates the cost/benefit of using recombinant bovine Somatotropin
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Link to the video.Calculates the projected net return of a cow or the entire herd.
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Link to the video.Calculates the value of a replacement heifer under specific farm conditions, an indicative of her buying or selling price.
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Link to the video.Calculates the number of heifers needed as replacement to maintain constant the herd size in the long-term
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Calculates the total cost of raising heifers in three points in time: at 12 months, 24 months, and after 24 months
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Link to the video.Retention Pay-Off (RPO) Calculator
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Simulates on a monthly basis the dynamics of a dairy herd population, including the future make-up of the herd
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Link to the video.The Working Capital (WC) decision support system consists of a suite of tools. It is intended to assist dairy producers in identifying annual cash flow balances for the recent past (1-2 years); project expected incomes and expenses for the coming year and identify cash excesses/shortfalls well in advance of occurrence. Stand alone Excel, AGFA compliant, Balance Sheet and Farm Earnings Statements are also offered.
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Link to the video.The Wisconsin Dairy Farm Ratio Benchmarking is a spreadsheet based tool especially created for this project. It compares dairy farm's financial status with +500 dairy farms in the State of Wisconsin.
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Link to the video.The DE-DSS is designed to help dairy producers explore “what-if” situations as they predict changes in dairy production and expansion. Dairy producers using the tool are able to forecast changes in herd structure for all calves, heifers, and cows.
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Link to the video.Graphs the gross margin guarantee and premium of a livestock gross margin (LGM-Dairy) insurance contract to selected levels of feed such as corn and soybean meal equivalents to cover together with every cwt of milk
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Calculates the cow's return to labor or the net revenue of a cow before covering the costs of labor
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Link to the video.Calculate the amount of feed to be insured within an LGM-Dairy contract.
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Link to the video.Help to calculate the Net Guarantee IOFC as the difference of all farm costs and feed costs. This value can be used to use the LGM-Dairy optimizer to find out the least cost premium. This tool also can be used to calculate the corn and soybean mean equivalents based upon a user defined diet. The corn and SBM equivalents are inputs needed for an LGM-Dairy contract
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Graphs the gross margin guarantee and premium of a livestock gross margin (LGM-Dairy) insurance contract to selected levels of feed such as corn and soybean meal equivalents to cover together with every cwt of milk
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LGM Dairy Feed Equivalent Calculator
Calculate the amount of feed to be insured within an LGM-Dairy contract.
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Link to the video.Milk Component Price Analysis
Calculates the value of each milk component and the premium/deduct according to the level of SCC. Performs sensitivity analysis according to different levels of butterfat, protein, other components, and SCC.
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