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National Dairy Herd Improvement Handbook

These publications are the full text of the National DHI Handbook.

* ANIMAL_IDENTIFICATION_IN_NCDHIP
* ANIMAL_MODEL_GENETIC_EVALUATIONS
* AN_INTEGRATED_REPRODUCTIVE_MANAGEMENT_PUBLICATION
* APPROVED_MEASURING_DEVICES_AND_RECORDERS
* BENCHMARKS_AND_GOALS_FOR_NeDHIA_DATA
* CODES_FOR_TRANSFER_OF_NCDHIP_DATA
* COMPONENT_TESTING_FAT_PROTEIN_AND_SOLIDS-NOT-FAT
* DAIRY_HERD_MANAGEMENT_EVALUATION
* Dairy Records Processing Center Activity Summary
* DANGER_SIGNALS_FOR_DAIRY_PRODUCERS
* DHIA_SUPERVISORS
* DHI_IN_THE_CLASSROOM
* DHI_PROFIT_TEMPLATE
* DYSTOCIA_DATA_AND_ITS_USE
* EDITING_LACTATION_RECORDS_GENETIC_EVALUATIONS
* FIELD_CORRECTION_PROCEDURES_FOR_DAIRY_RECORDS
* FLOW_OF_RECORDS_WITHIN_NCDHIP
* GENETIC_IMPROVEMENT_OF_DAIRY_CATTLE
* HISTORY_OF_DAIRY_RECORDKEEPING
* INTERPRETING_INDEXES_OF_REPRODUCTIVE_EFFICIENCY
* INTRODUCTION_TO_DAIRY_GOAT_RECORDS
* KEEPING_RECORDS_FOR_HEIFER_MANAGEMENT
* MANAGEMENT_RECORD_SYSTEMS_FOR_DAIRIES
* MAXBULL_COMPUTERIZED_SIRE_SELECTION_FOR_THE_HERD
* MILK_PRESERVATIVES
* NATIONAL_DAIRY_HERD_IMPROVEMENT_PROGRAM_RULES
* NATIONAL_MEMORANDUM_OF_UNDERSTANDING
* CURRENT_NCDHIP_PARTICIPATION
* NCDHIP_RECORDS_IN_THE_4_H_PROGRAMS
* NET_PRESENT_VALUE_SIRE_SUMMARIES
* PROCEDURES_FOR_CALCULATING_LACTATION_RECORDS
* RECORD_USE_BY_LENDING_INSTITUTIONS
* RESPONSIBILITIES_OF_THE_COOPERATIVE_BOARD_MEMBERS
* RULES_FOR_DAIRY_HERD_IMPROVEMENT_REGISTRY
* SOMATIC_CELL_COUNT
* STANDARDS_FOR_THE_PUBLIC_USE_OF_NCDHIP_RECORDS
* State and National Standardized Lactation Averages by Breed
* STATE_EXTENSION_SPECIALISTS_FOR_THE_NCDHIP
* STATUS_OF_UNITED_STATES_DAIRY_CATTLE
* STATUS_OF_UNITED_STATES_DAIRY_CATTLE_II
* TERMINOLOGY
* THE_NAAB_CROSS-REFERENCE_LISTING_OF_DAIRY_SIRES
* THE_NATIONAL_DAIRY_HERD_IMPROVEMENT_PROGRAM
* THE_USE_OF_DHIA_RECORDS_BY_VETERINARIANS
* USDA Summary of Herd Averages
* USING_DHIA_RECORDS_IN_THE_VO_AG_PROGRAM
* USING_DHI_RECORDS_FOR_FEEDING_DAIRY_CATTLE
* USING_DHI_RECORDS_TO_MANAGE_THE_DAIRY_HERD
* WEIGHING_AND_SAMPLING_MILK_FOR_DHI_TESTS
* Return to the Maryland Dairy Knowledge home page

The National Dairy Database is presented on InforM via cooperation between the University of Maryland and the USDA National Agricultural Library. You can reach the the National Agricultural Library on the WWW.
This Web page is maintained by Mark Varner, Extension Dairy Scientist at the Univ. of Maryland and Chairman of the National Program Planning Committee for the NDD. You can reach him with comments at (varner@umd5.umd.edu). Page updated 16 January 1997.
The National Dairy Database is published by the National Agricultural Database Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin in cooperation between USDA, land-grant universities and allied industries. The National Dairy Database is distributed on CD-ROM disk also. You can reach the National Agricultural Database Laboratory on the WWW.