What is the value of TGM to
the consultant and a producer?
Management Information
Systems
Terry J. DeGroff
Burwell, Nebraska
Components of Ranch
Information System
Financial Records
 Production Records
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– Cattle Inventories
– Raised Feed Fed
– Grazing
Management Objectives:
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To provide the nutritional
requirements of the cattle on a
year around basis
To minimize purchased feedstuffs
To minimize use of harvested
forage
Demand on System
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1500 Cows
– Calve April-May
– Wean September-October
1400 Raised weaned calves
 600 Purchased weaned calves
 Background calves through the
winter
 Market as yearlings July-August
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Range Resource
23,750 acres grazing land
 83 Individual pastures
 Variable Carrying capacities
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– .4-1.7 demand months per acre
Harvested Hay Resource
Sub Irrigated Meadows
1650 Acres
Partially grazed
Environmental Challenges
Drought
Grasshoppers
Fire
Snow cover
Management Challenges
Later breeding season
 Replacement Heifers
 Summer time branding
 Marketing windows
 Water
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What’s the value of TGM?
 Planning
 Re-planning
What’s the value of TGM?
Planning
 Re-Planning
 Communication tool
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What’s the value of TGM?
Planning
 Re-Planning
 Communication tool
 Historical Records
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G ra z in g R e c o rd s
Year
G ro u p
Head
P a s tu re
D a te
D e s c rip tio n
C ount
ID
In
D a te
A M /P M
O ut
A M /P M
Use
S u p p le m e n ta l F e e d
R a tin g
(lb s p e r h d . p e r d a y )
What’s the value of TGM?
Evaluate management techniques
 Manage inventories
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– Grazing
– Hay
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Cost Accounting
T h an k s for h a vin g m e!