Sharpen your skills within DHI-Plus and the many data analysis tools within this powerful software program.

• DHI-Plus
  • Inventory and Finance Projections—More accurately project your future cow numbers, milk production, income and expenses, and profit margin. Do "What if?" analysis as you make important business decisions.
  • Become more efficient with data entry, analysis, and custom reports.
  • Data analysis tools—Cohort analysis, breeding analysis, and events analysis.
• Pocket DHI-Plus and RFID
  • Bring efficiency to your operation with this money-saving tool.
  • Learn how to use RFID for a vet check, shots, vaccinations, inventories, and more.
  • Calving/Enrollment module available. Record Calving data and assign RFID to a calf at time of calving. QuickID Task for assigning Bangs/Vaccination tags.
• Rx-Plus and Rx-Tools Drug Tracking modules
  • Learn the Rx-Plus tools that help keep you in compliance with FDA record-keeping regulations, including demonstrations and detailed instructions.
  • Pocket Rx-Plus Drug Tracking—Record vital drug-treatment records cow side.
  • Enhance the ability of your dairy to properly care for your animals.
• DHI-Plus Mobile Service
  • Make informed decisions anywhere, anytime.
  • Real-time data look-up from your DHI-Plus computer via the Internet, smartphone or tablet.
  • Use on many different devices:
    • Apple iPhones and iPads
    • Android phones and tablet computers
    • Windows phones and tablet computers
    • Laptop and desktop computers via an internet browser
  • View a number of DHI-Plus and EZfeed^® reports right from your smartphone or tablet computer. Drill down to more detail in the subsections like Vital Statistics, Breeding, etc.
  • Enables multiple authorized people to use the service including dairy personnel, consultants, veterinarians, etc.
• Genomics
  • Learn how to utilize genomic data in DHI-Plus for sorting and ranking animals.
  • Find out how to get genomic data automatically brought into your DHI-Plus data for individual animals.

Emphasis on the feeding process

• Learn how to Analyze Feed Center Efficiency & Shrink.
• Focus on profitability and bottom line. What changes make a difference to your profitability?
• Setting up of Pens / Classifications / Grouping / Capacity / Cattle Values / Scale Effects.
• Ration Setup - Premixes—Scenarios.
• Organizing Ingredients, naming schemes, inventory costs, pens, sorting options, grouping - Ingredient History, scale effects.
• Learn how to enter, import and organize data, to efficiently summarize your information.
• Create and modify reports/graphs and summaries, automate functions, and interface with other programs.
• Effectively track Inventories and Shrink, setting benchmarks for success.
• Evaluating Actual Information—Where does the Actual feed information come from? Ingredient values and changes—Where do they come from?
• Feed System Automation.
• Bunk Management.
• Importing bulk tank and weather data.
• Feeder evaluations and what makes a difference.
• Troubleshooting hardware issues for Pocket PCs, radios, and antennas

Emphasis from within the office

• Learn how to manage inventories.
• Record deliveries, and reconcile and adjust inventories.
• Setup feed contracts and track delivery of contracted feed ingredients.
• Editing load values, applying additional information, and tracking historical changes.
• Setting up and organizing Incoming and Outgoing Commodities in EZweights and other items.
• Setup and handling of crops, fields, acreage, owners, harvesters, and other details with harvests.
• Organizing Ingredients, naming schemes, inventory costs, pens, sorting options, grouping - Ingredient History.
• Learn how to validate and evaluate data going across your scale coming in and going out.
• Effectively track Inventories and Shrink, setting benchmarks for success.
• Evaluating Actual Information—Where does the Actual feed information come from? Ingredient values and changes—Where do they come from?
• Feeder evaluations and what makes a difference.
• Usage and inventory reports.
• Building and customizing reports.
• Exporting data

For Consultants and Producers

• An interactive and discussion-based class focusing on analysis tools in EZfeed and DHI-Plus and how to help dairy producers be more profitable.
• Learn new concepts and training for Cohort Analysis, Breeding Analysis, and Rx-Tools.
• Concepts and training on Feed intakes, Feed cost per CWT, IOFC, Feed Efficiencies, Feed Inventories, Managing Shrink, and Bunk Management.

For Managers / Labs / Technicians