Future Inventory (ECON\IR)
5 min
🎓 in this guide, you will learn how to setup parameters for econ\ir how to understand the information displayed on the econ\ir report econ\ir is a command verb which displays the predicted future herd inventory for the next 7 months based on animals currently declared pregnant cull rates entered the semen type for the sires of conception (sirc) conventional, sexed, beef 🗒️ note future inventory predications can assist in future semen selection setup parameters for econ\ir follow these steps to get started with econ\ir and create your future inventory report enter econ\ir on the command line enter the farm's replacement rate for lact>1 cull rate for 2nd lactation animals and up enter the farm's replacement rate for lact=1 cull rate for 1st lactation animals enter the live female percentage for unsexed dairy semen % of calves born from conventional (unsexed) semen resulting in a live female calf being added to the cowfile enter the live female percentage for sexed dairy semen % of calves born from sexed semen resulting in a live female calf being added to the cowfile understanding the econ\ir report \<font color="#882255">1\</font> count of milking, dry and lact>0 \<font color="#882255">2\</font> %m (% milking) \<font color="#882255">3\</font> newin (heifers freshening) \<font color="#882255">4\</font> left (culled cows) \<font color="#882255">5\</font> count of lact>1, lact=1, lact=0 \<font color="#882255">6 \</font> total animals (inventory) \<font color="#882255">7\</font> avg milk (average milk production) \<font color="#882255">8 \</font> total cwt (milk production in hundred weight) \<font color="#882255">1\</font> milking, dry, lact>0 milking is the predicted number of milking cows, dry is the predicted number of dry cows and lact>0 is the total of both combined (797+128 = 925) \<font color="#882255">2\</font> %m is the percent of cows milking (797/925 x 100 = 86%) \<font color="#882255">3\</font> newin is the number of lact=0 that freshened last month 2 under lact=0 is the reduction in heifer numbers due to freshening 2 under lact=1 is the number of fresh heifers added to lact=1 (see fresh on the left column) 2 under newin for july is the number of fresh heifers added to the milking total from the previous month \<font color="#882255">4\</font> left is the expected number of animals to leave the herd (sold or died) and is dependent upon the replacement rates entered these values will affect the total milking for the next month july milking (789) = june milking + fresh cows cows dried off culled cows (797+42 34 16=789) \<font color="#882255">5\</font> lact>1, lact=1, lact=0 total number of cows based on lactation numbers \<font color="#882255">6\</font> total animals the total herd size (inventory) lact>1 + lact=1 + lact=0 (740+185+413=1338) \<font color="#882255">7\</font> avg milk the average milk production coming from test day milk or the page 6 lactation curve data \<font color="#882255">8 \</font> total cwt the total milk production displayed in a hundred weight value milk average x total milking / 100 = total hundred weight (84x797/100 = 669) ⚠️ important econ\ir is not accurate if heifers are stored in a different cowfile abort rate is not calculated or considered by econ\ir replacement rate (cull rate) excludes pregnant cows confirm actual dcc at dry off matches the dudry item value dudry may be given a different name such as dryof or dry60 econ\ir will look for dudry or another item using cdat as the op1 and an op2 value > 170 💡 tip click here to learn how to add econ\ir to your vas pulse platform dashboard econ\ir projected herd inventory/production docid\ yz6gibm rrr8hc8huqqdu click here to continue with the next guide introduction to bredsum docid\ ioabovges1 kvjjok0gbj