Net Merit $: The Lifetime Profit Calculator

A cow needs to calve to be able to produce milk. Breeding also means organizing the new generation milking cows. When the new born calf gets a right genetics from its parents, it will perform better than the average of her parents. Because farm costs keep increasing, it then becomes important that the offspring also earns more life time profit for you than her mother.

When using Net Merit (NM$) as a breeding tool, it will measure for you the additional net profit that this new born generation will provide over their lifetime. NM$ as well as TPI pays attention on production traits where NM$ gives more value on components. The real differences of NM$ in relation with TPI is the high attention for Productive Life (PL), Livability (Liv.), optimum body size (Stature) and Calving Ease traits in the NM$ while TPI pays more attention on type traits.

Example:

What is the effect of selecting bulls on NM$ ? When you can choose between two bulls where bull A show a NM$ 400 and bull B NM$ 900, the new born heifer calf of bull B realize US$ 500,00 more lifetime profit for you than a daughter of bull A. In a herd with 100 milking cows this results in US $ 50.000 more money (100 animals x US $ 500 per animal).

In our active AI Total portfolio we can show you the following high value bulls for NM$:   

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