2019/06/05 by Bidan, Fabrice, Le Mezec, Pascale, Dimon, Philippe +3
#0 #Allaitants #Bovins #Breeding #Cattle #Dairy #Herds #Impact économique #Lactating #Laitiers #Observatoire #Observatory economic impact #Reproduction #Troupeaux
paper · doi:10.15454/xhaduh
The REPROSCOPE project has developed tools to support the management of reproduction in both dairy herds and suckler herds. The observatory has a web interface, available free of charge, which makes it possible to explore breeding performances in more than 180 000 dairy or beef cattle herds. After selecting a specific population according to animals or herds features, 20 performance indicators describe reproductive results through averages and distributions under a homogeneous and comprehensive way. The main lessons learned from this project show a great variability of reproductive performances and economic impacts, highlighting room for future improvements. From the positioning tool, farmers and their advisors can locate a herd performance among profiles, in order to facilitate estimation of possible progress margins, and an economic simulation estimates the added value that the farmer can expect. REPROSCOPE helps to define reproductive goals consistent with the farming systems in connection with the breeders’ expectations.