Tools (more to come)
Capital Budget
Spreadsheet to set up a capital budget for a new dairy facility.
- Hashtag: capitalbudget
- Developers: C.V. Thomas, M.A. DeLorenzo, and D.R. Bray
- Tool: CapitalBudgetSpreadsheet.xlsm (EXCEL)
- Documentation: Capital Budgeting for a New Dairy Facility (PDF)
- Related publication: Circular 1110 (1994) (PDF)
- Last updated: February 24, 2009
Economic Feasibility Cooling Dry Cows
Spreadsheet to calculate the economic feasibility of cooling dry cows.
- Hashtag: coolingdrycows
- Developer: F.C. Ferreira, R.S. Genari, G.E. Dahl, and A. De Vries
- Tool: cooling-dry-cows-spreadsheet-for-EDIS.xlsx (PDF)
- Documentation: Economic Feasibility of Cooling Dry Cows: Findings and Spreadsheet (PDF)
- Related publications: JDS (PDF)
- Last updated: August 30, 2017
DairyVIP (dairy value iteration program)
Evaluation of consequences of changes in herd management and prices on dairy farms. This program has monthly time steps, seasonality, and dynamic programming. Download the ZIP file and extract all. Then save the .exe (executable) and .xlsm (spreadsheet) files in the same directory and enable macros.
- Hashtag: dairyvip
- Developer: A. De Vries
- Tool: dairyvip21.zip (ZIP)
- Documentation: The DairyVIP Program (PDF)
- Last updated: June 16, 2016
Digester Economics
Spreadsheet to calculate the economic feasibility of anaerobic manure digesters on Florida dairy farms
- Hashtag: digester
- Developer: A. De Vries, R. Giesy, A.C. Wilkie, and R.A. Nordstedt
- Tool: Digester1.1.xlsx (EXCEL)
- Documentation: Spreadsheet to Calculate the Economic Feasibility of Anaerobic Manure Digesters on Florida Dairy Farms (PDF)
- Last updated: January 3, 2007
Heifer Completion Calculator
Appllication to calculate heifer completion fraction in DairyComp. Install and run in DairyComp.
- Hashtag: heifercompletion
- Developer: A. De Vries
- Tool: HeiferCompletion-version1.1.zip (ZIP)
- Documentation: Installation documentation version 1.1 (PDF)
- Last updated: February 16, 2026
Semen Value Calculator
Calculate the net present value of +$100 in selection index. What can I afford to pay for semen from better sires?
- Hashtag: semenvalue
- Developer: A. De Vries
- Tool: semenvalue11-tools.xlsx (EXCEL)
- Documentation: Economic Value of Genetic Merit of Dairy Semen (PDF)
- Last updated: February 23, 2026
Stall Stocking Density Calculator
Metamodel of economic evaluation of stall stocking density. Journal of Dairy Science. 99:3848–3857
- Hashtag: stallstockingdensity
- Developer: A. De Vries, H. Dechassa, H. Hogeveen
- Tool: metamodels-stockingdensity2.xlsx (EXCEL)
- Documentation: Economic Evaluation of Dairy Cow Stocking Density (PDF)
- Related publications: JDS (PDF) | WCDS (PDF) | PD (PDF)
- Last updated: April 25, 2018