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Evaluating Beef Herd Electronic Information Systems | |
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Many years ago, Dr. Harlan Hughes (Professor Emeritus, North Dakota State University) observed that creating and using managment information was essential in managing unit costs and driving herd profitability. Although technology has changed significantly since Harlan made these observations, the principles still hold.
Technology – Herd Electronics
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is becoming reliable and the tags more cost effective. Suppliers have many products that complement the RFID technology. These offer the capability to capture a range of basic identification information to advanced performance monitoring and treatment history. Manager time increases to log supplemental animal information.
The allure of these systems is ease of capture of identity and production information, replacing manual systems. From a production management perspective, the potential to reap time and production efficiencies is attractive.
However, from a business management point of view, the underlying questions remain:
- Will you use the information?
- Will it be a profitable investment?
There is a straight forward process producers can use to evaluate these key questions - using simple partial budgets.
For a complete copy of this technical bulletin please download the above mentioned .pdf file. |
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For more information about the content of this document, contact Anatoliy Oginskyy.
This document is maintained by Shukun Guan.
This information published to the web on December 22, 2009.
Last Reviewed/Revised on December 18, 2013.
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