DairyComp 305

What do you like best?

I love that you can graph virtually anything, including milk production data. I also really like all of the reports it can generate to help you breed cattle on time, monitor which cows to dry off, and keep track of calving dates. I LOVE that the program has much more capability of reports to manage animals on a long term basis (anything from culling to which sire you use most often).

What do you dislike?

I dislike that there is some random terms you have to learn. For instance, you have to learn that a cow who is dry is rc=6, which makes the learning curve a little bit harder than a competitor program like PC Dart which has drop down menus. I also think Dairy comp REALLY needs to work on making a standard health code for common diseases seen in transition cows to make monitoring disease incidence easier for herd nutritionists and vets.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Take a minute to learn some codes from a consultant, vet, etc. It will make this program so worthwhile and so much easier to implement on farm! The software pays for itself by what it is able to manage, this makes the software wonderful to use and great for anyone.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Herd management tools, it is great for analyzing benchmarking for a herd in terms of its own milk production, reproductive performance etc.