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Profit-Maximizing Dairy Sire Selection Package

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  • Blake, Robert W.
  • Shumway, C. Richard
  • Tomaszewski, Michael A.
  • Rickard, Greg P.
  • LaBore, John M.

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The Net Present Value Sire Summary Professional Package (NPVSS) is a microcomputer program designed for technical personnel to help dairy producers better manage investments in genetic improvement. NPVSS is written in C language, utilizes the MS-DOS operating system, and requires 256K of RAM. It is menu driven and includes parameter screens to define herd management characteristics of individual producers. Profit rankings of bulls can be generated to evaluate alternative: a) objective functions (selection policies for genetic merit in milk income and type scores), b) herd management performance factors (conception rate, calving interval, age at first calving), and c) economic factors (milk price, semen price, discount rate, planning horizon).

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  • Blake, Robert W. & Shumway, C. Richard & Tomaszewski, Michael A. & Rickard, Greg P. & LaBore, John M., 1988. "Profit-Maximizing Dairy Sire Selection Package," Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Cambridge University Press, vol. 20(1), pages 141-144, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jagaec:v:20:y:1988:i:01:p:141-144_02
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    1. Stokes, Jeffrey R. & Tozer, Peter R., 2002. "Sire selection with multiple objectives," Agricultural Systems, Elsevier, vol. 73(2), pages 147-164, August.
    2. Soliman, Ibrahim & Bahgat, Basher, 2020. "An Approach for Dairy Buffalo Development through Investment in Genetic Improvement," MPRA Paper 114263, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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