WHAT IS BeefPro? MISSION - Bonsmara Breeders Association

o Pelvic Measurements:
• Adjusted pelvic opening size and index
• Retention of Progeny (Registered/Stud Herds):
o Number and percentage of progeny approved (per sex and total)
• General:
o Averages and trends for any trait per group and period
FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS
• Integration with Pocket PCs (with Windows Mobile operating system)
• Integration with ARC’s range and forage programme (Stock Manager)
WHY BeefPro?
BenguelaSoft CC’s aim with the development of BeefPro is to assist all beef cattle farmers
(commercial and stud) in making all aspects of record keeping and management of their herds
more easy and efficient. In short, to help you, the farmer, to make more profit. Therefore our
slogan: BeefPro - Your profit partner.
The ARC’s Animal Production Institute is off course in an ideal position to develop a
programme that will meet the needs of all beef cattle farmers. To highlight a few of
these aspects:
• The ARC’s Animal Recording and Improvement group has first hand access to the
protocol, procedures, calculation methods, correction factors and standard values that
are used for processing of performance test data.
• The ARC’s Animal Recording and Improvement group carries out ongoing research to
develop and refine these aspects.
• According to legislation such research results are the ARC’s intellectual property and it
may NOT be made available to other institutions. In effect this means that BeefPro is the
only beef cattle software package in which the calculation of indexes, adjusted weights,
etcetera is exactly the same as the official calculations of the National Beef Recording
and Improvement Scheme.
• The ARC is a member of the International Committee for Animal Recording (ICAR) and is
therefore at the forefront of international developments (and contributes valuable input)
with regard to animal recording, performance testing and breeding value estimations.
• The ARC’s Animal Recording and Improvement group has a large capacity and wide
infrastructure (especially via our regional offices and technical personnel). This puts us in
a very favourable position to provide country wide and even world wide client services
for BeefPro in terms of marketing, installation, training, user support, determining
users' future needs, etcetera.