North Dakota Beef Cattle Improvement Association (NDBCIA)
Fact Sheet

• Incorporated in 1963, NDBCIA is a producer-driven organization with an elected board of directors.

• NDBCIA's data center is the largest commercial cow/calf recordkeeping system in the nation and processes annually over twenty-five thousand individual cow/calf records.

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• Data Confidentiality, Accuracy and Timeliness have always been top priority with the NDBCIA in the handling of all data, regardless of source.

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• NDBCIA is global with software contracts in over 26 states, two Canadian provinces, along with contracts in Mexico, Latin America and South America.

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• NDBCIA was the first to have a certified software program meeting the National Cattlemen's Association-Integrated Resources Management-Standardized Performance Analysis (NCA-IRM-SPA) requirements and is one of only two nationally approved software programs available today.

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• NDBCIA has source verified over one-half of a million calves through a centrally organized preconditioning management program.

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• NDBCIA was organized for the purpose of data processing and the analysis of beef cattle records.

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• The bottom-line objective of the NDBCIA has always been on sound beef cattle improvements, providing members with the information needed to remain competitive in the ever-changing beef industry of today.

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• Currently, NDBCIA processes cow/calf records for several breed organizations.

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• NDBCIA is professionally staffed through North Dakota State University, and utilizes Software Solutions Integrated, an independent software development company.

For more information, contact:
Kris Ringwall chaps@ndsuext.nodak.edu
(701) 483-2348
1133 State Avenue
Dickinson, ND  58601