Beef ration program

BRaNDS Growing and Breeding Bull, Standard Edition Ideally suited for bull test rations, the Growing and Breeding Bull Module takes into account factors influencing nutrient demand and feedstuff choices to determine if weight gain goals are met.

This module is for breeding age bulls. Like the Beef Cow Module in concept, this program assists in optimizing the use of feedstuffs in maintaining the herd bull battery. Iowa Eastern Cornbelt. Iowa Eastern Cornbelt Kansas Missouri.

The BRaNDS Appendix contains many tools for estimating feed quantities and qualities along with some cattle and pasture growth and development. The Appendix is part of the Professional Edition, but can be purchased separately for use with other editions. Use to evaluate and formulate rations for growing cattle on grass or crop residue.

Quicken for Farm and Ranch Management Records is a popular commercial record-keeping package that is user friendly, inexpensive, readily available, flexible and widely used. Import options allow you to add a farm category list created at Oklahoma State University that matches the tax Schedule F, minimizing the effort required to develop a beginning chart of accounts. Wheat and Wheat-Stocker Production Planner enables a user to describe farm-specific situations and to compare the economic consequences of alternative uses of land seeded to wheat.

It is a microcomputer decision aid program developed to assist wheat producers evaluate the economic consequences of alternative wheat and wheat-stocker production systems. Generates side-by-side comparison of stocker profitability for a wide range of purchase weights.

Based on Excel spreadsheet software. This tool calculates average mineral intake for a mineral that is fed to your cattle. It includes average intake over time and graphs average intake between times you place mineral in your pasture. It can account for mineral remaining in the feeder and changes in number of cattle in the pasture. Is written so that the user can select either "as is" moisture basis, or a dry matter basis to develop or check a ration formulation.

For the non-skilled nutritionist, this program may be used to check a feed mixture to see if it meets the NRC recommendations for a given weight and class of growing-finishing cattle. The OQBN Vac program is a preconditioning program that allows producers to third party verify their preconditioning efforts.

This tool lets you estimate the cost of participation in the program versus your projected returns. This decision aid determines the operating and ownership costs of haying machinery and equipment and helps evaluate whether ownership is justified with respect to custom harvest operations. The program is useful for enterprise budgeting, estimating transportation costs, and evaluating purchasing alternatives.

Preconditioning is the practice of preparing calves for the stresses encountered during the transition from nursing to confined feeding. The concept has existed since the large-scale cattle feeding industry first evolved in the late s.

The goals are to overcome the stress of weaning, teach calves to eat milled feed, administer appropriate immunizations, reduce sickness and increase the value of the calves to cattle feeders.

Designed to calculate the daily amount of feed for a pen of cattle. The Manure Nutrient Value Calculator is a spreadsheet program that works with Microsoft Excel 97 or newer and uses about K of space. Modeled on the Feedlot Monitoring Program, this software is designed to help lamb feeders track production costs, lamb performance, and whether nutrient requirements are met. Skip Navigation. Iowa Beef Center. Using the Feedlot Monitoring Program to record feed bunk scores. All rights reserved.