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ERIC Number: EJ1107412
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016-Jun
Pages: 7
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: EISSN-1077-5315
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Maximizing Use of Extension Beef Cattle Benchmarks Data Derived from Cow Herd Appraisal Performance Software
Ramsay, Jennifer M.; Hanna, Lauren L. Hulsman; Ringwall, Kris A.
Journal of Extension, v54 n3 Article 3TOT5 Jun 2016
One goal of Extension is to provide practical information that makes a difference to producers. Cow Herd Appraisal Performance Software (CHAPS) has provided beef producers with production benchmarks for 30 years, creating a large historical data set. Many such large data sets contain useful information but are underutilized. Our goal was to create a 20-year data set (CHAPS20Y) to examine trends in beef production from 1994 to 2013. In this article, we describe the CHAPS program and the process used to select herds for CHAPS20Y. We hope to publish additional related articles that will examine trends in calving distributions, reproduction, and growth and discuss implications for producers and Extension.
Extension Journal, Inc. e-mail: joe-ed@joe.org; Web site: http://www.joe.org
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: N/A
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Iowa; Kansas; Massachusetts; Minnesota; Montana; Nebraska; North Dakota; South Dakota
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