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CHAPS Program

Thank you for your interest in the CHAPS2000 program.

CHAPS 2000 (Cow Herd Appraisal Performance Software) is a data intensive beef production record system designed to provide you with vital information about your managerial decisions and herd's performance.

CHAPS 2000 was developed by the North Dakota State University Extension Service through the North Dakota Beef Cattle Improvement Association (NDBCIA) and has been reviewed and approved by the National Cattlemen's Beef Association - National Integrated Resource Management - Coordinating Committee.

For more information about the program, please contact:

Lee Tisor
Research Specialist
Dickinson Research Extension Center
1041 State Ave
Dickinson, ND 58601

lee.tisor@ndsu.edu
701-456-1105

Most Recent Benchmarks

For more effective utilization of individual herd data, production benchmark values utilizing the NCBA-IRM-SPA calculations were obtained from CHAPS^TM herds with a total of 88,000 cows exposed to bulls and processed during 2010-2017. CHAPS^TM compares each individual producer's performance against the benchmarks. The benchmark values for the NCBA-IRM-SPA traits are as follows:

93.7	pregnancy %	2.5	average daily gain *
0.58	pregnancy loss %	2.95	weight per day age *
93.1	calving %	82	birth weight *
3.0	calf death loss %	627	adjusted 205-d weight *
91.0	weaning %	5.2	frame score
14.9	replacement %	42	% heifers early
3.3	calf death loss % (number born)	76	% heifers at 21 d
193	age at weaning (d)	88	% heifers at 42 d
63.2	% calves at 21 d	60	% cows at 21 d
87.6	% calves at 42 d	87	% cows at 42 d
96.1	% calves at 63 d	5.6	cow age (yrs)
3.9	% calves after 63 d	1389	cow weight *
573	steers weaning weight *	5.6	cow condition
542	heifers weaning weight *	13.2	% culled
606	bulls weaning weight *
561	all weaning weight *
502	pounds weaned/cow exposed *		Updated 09/28/2018

North Dakota State University

Dickinson Research Extension Center

CHAPS Program

The Breakeven Calculator, Closeout Analyzer, and Cow Herd Budget tools are available here.