A dairy farm's breeding and semen choices impact dairy herd inventory three years down the road. It is complex to consider the consequences, tradeoffs, and dynamics of those choices, and it is costly to wind up with too few replacements to keep the dairy herd full with the most productive cows.

This tool is intended to compare the youngstock inventory and cash flow under varying scenarios of number of potential replacement animals produced and raised as a result of various semen strategies, and the eventual use of those available replacements. It is an expansion of the original SemenSolver tool that was developed as a tool to guide week-by-week semen choices, customized for a specific farm, to capitalize on crossbred beef markets while maintaining the replacement supply to support herd size and performance.

Original SemenSolver spreadsheet tool: https://hdl.handle.net/1813/115529 Original SemenSolver fact sheet: https://hdl.handle.net/1813/115530