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Control, Data Recording and Retrieval - Techniques

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2010

A.D. Burgess
A.D. Burgess
Affiliation:
National Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Wrest Park, Silsoe, Bedford
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Management control of a herd of animals is undertaken even at the most primitive level by recording data and subsequently recalling the information to effect decisions. This was true of the shepherd and goatherd of antiquity and the techniques used then were not much improved until the 1930's when an impetus for change came from setting up such bodies as the Milk Marketing Board. With dairy cattle, the major emphasis is now on herd control using methods equivalent to management control in industry. In management control, an aggregate of data, retrieved by suitable analysis, is used to effect a policy decision.

Type
Data Analysis and Use
Information
BSAP Occasional Publication , Volume 2: The Mechanization and Automation of Cattle Production , January 1980 , pp. 183 - 190
Copyright
Copyright © British Society of Animal Production 1980

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