Dakota Davis Spring 2013

 Custom Work ◦ Wheat Harvest ◦ Small Square Baling and Hauling ◦ Swathing and Round Baling  Commercial Cattle Operations  Auctions ◦ Livestock Auction Yard Manager ◦ Auctioneer

 Registered Polled Hereford Seedstock ◦ 500 Acres of Native Range Pasture  Commercial Beef Production ◦ 200 Acres of Native Range Pasture  Auctioneer  Part-Time Equipment Salesman at Enid New Holland ◦ Full-time upon graduation  120 Acres of Alfalfa Production

 Livestock Production  Custom/Commercial Haying  Spraying  Winter Wheat Production

 Grow Safe Feeders ◦ Measures Residual Feed Intake and Cattle Behavior ◦ Useful in determining cattle that are feed efficient  Invest in those genetics ◦ Once identified, we can produce more beef for consumes with less grain input

 How it Works  Each Calf in the Pen has an RFID Tag that is read by the feeder  System Calculates ◦ Duration and intake for every individual feeding event up to one second accurate (feeding event criterion is user defined). ◦ Head down and in to out duration during this event up to one second accurate. ◦ Feed disappearance during events up to one second accurate. ◦ Feeding frequency throughout the day ◦ Automatic calculation of feed supply. ◦ Feeding rate throughout feeding event. ◦ Animals standing at the bunk not consuming feed. ◦ Time of the event, one second accurate. ◦ Intervals between events. ◦ Number of animals feeding simultaneously. ◦ Social hierarchy - "who feeds besides who" and "who feeds first". ◦ Sends data to Computer for Analysis  Cost is $120,000 to feed 125 head

 Accurate Information to use in developing feed efficient Beef  Primarily will be used in Seedstock Industry  Saves on Input Costs  Decreases Pollution in the Environment ◦ Efficient Cattle use less grain, which means they will emit less Methane gas into the environment.  Feed the world with less animals and less land use requirements

 Embryo Transfer work in Cattle ◦ Allows producers to super ovulate cattle so they produce more eggs for fertilization. Once fertilized the embryos can be flushed from the uterus and placed in recipient females. ◦ This means that superior animals who naturally produce one offspring each year can produce multiple offspring creating a faster turnover in genetic improvement.

 Cost for basic In-Vivo ET work is $ /cow  Cost for In-Vitro ET work is $ /cow

 Lely Astronaut A4 ◦ Robotic Milking Machine ◦ Requires no human interaction ◦ Cows go into he pen by themselves and the milker does the rest

 Business Week  Cost in the United States is $210,000/robot  /the cow-milking-robot /the cow-milking-robot

 Custom and Commercial  New Holland H8000 Series Self Propelled Windrower ◦ Intelliview III Monitor- Comes Standard ◦ Autosteer-$7300 Upgrade ◦ Total Cost is between $90,000-$100,000 for the machine

 New Holland T7.235 Tractor ◦ These Tractors come with options like:  Autosteer  WAAS or RTK Guidance  Sidewinder Armrest with Intelliview III Monitor  Tier 4 Emission Compliant ◦ Tractor Cost with all these options: $ RSP  Actually cost can get down in to: $170k-180k

 Allows farmers to better understand their soil nutrient content ◦ Therefore they can achieve better use of their fertilizer  When to do it? ◦ If you acquire a new farm without known history ◦ Every Few Years at you discretion  Cost in Sumner County, KS: Heartland Soil Sampling- $8.25-$9.25/acre

 Improves quality of life ◦ More time at home due to increased efficiencies ◦ Increases production yields ◦ Creates more food with better use of inputs  Decreases Fatigue in operations ◦ When using guidance or “robot milkers” or any other P.A technology, it generally reduces the amount of physical labor required  Increases bottom line ◦ By reducing costs and optimizing inputs, you increase profits

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