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AMES, IOWA - January 24, 2019 – Performance Livestock Analytics (PLA), an industry leader in agriculture software, is pleased to announce the appointment of Justin Sexten as Vice President of Strategy. Justin is responsible for executing on the company’s strategic initiatives. This hire will enable PLA to explore new business opportunities in addition to their flagship product Performance BeefTM
“As the beef supply chain becomes more digitized, PLA has the opportunity to serve a new era of traceability, sustainability, and food safety that is technology enabled,” said Dane Kuper, CEO of PLA “The company is experiencing exciting growth and we are especially excited for Justin to join the leadership team as we enter this next growth phase.” Sexten joins PLA with over 20 years of beef industry experience. Sexten brings cow-calf, stocker and feedlot segment knowledge and understanding to the PLA team from his graduate training at the University of Illinois to his research and extension program at the University of Missouri. Most recently as Director Of Supply Development with Certified Angus Beef, Sexten offers a perspective across the entire supply chain from ranch to end-user. “I look forward to exploring business and data opportunities for the PLA community” said Sexten. “It’s an exciting opportunity to join a company leading the way in real-time data-based decision tools that empowers producers to improve profitability while addressing growing consumer demands” Performance Beef is the leading business operating system in the livestock industry, a software subscription service that helps livestock producers automatically capture feed and veterinary information, essential to maximizing profitability. Performance Beef provides simple, easy-to-use software apps that allow livestock producers to manage all financial, operational, and performance data relative to their cattle operations. About Performance Livestock Analytics Inc. Performance Livestock Analytics provides software subscription services to livestock producers, brokers, risk managers, nutritionists, animal health and animal nutrition companies. Performance BeefTM is a product of Performance Livestock Analytics Inc. For more information please visit www.performancelivestockanalytics.com ©2018 Performance Livestock Analytics Inc. All rights reserved. Performance Livestock Analytics Inc. (PLA), Performance Beef and any other PLA products and services mentioned herein, as well as their respective logos, are trademarks or registered trademarks of PLA. Contact: Performance Livestock Analytics Inc. support@cattlekrush.com
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AMES, IOWA- December 10, 2018 - Performance Livestock Analytics has released new updates to their closeout reports. This update will allow producers to customize how reports are calculated and displayed regarding either “Deads-In” or “Deads-Out”. The update also incorporates additional features like closeout report filters and combined closeouts. These new reports are designed to be customizable to each producer's operation. The first and most noticeable feature is the closeout report filters. These filters will allow producers to assess the performance of their cattle with deeper, more granular data. When “Whole Group” is selected, the system will run the closeout report to calculate the entire group's performance, including those currently on feed and those that have been sold. When “On Feed” is selected, it will run the report for the cattle that are left on feed, excluding the cattle that have been sold. When “Sold” is selected, it will run the report based only on the performance of the cattle that have been sold out of the group. To adjust the closeout, simply click on the filter you wish to view your report with.  Next, Performance Beef now has the ability to run combined closeouts. Producers will be able to select multiple groups to combine all of their financial and performance data into one report. This added functionality will allow you to benchmark your cattle from year to year, compare cattle from one sale barn to another, compare heifers to steers and more. This feature will not require any setting changes. Make sure you have "Closeout A" or "Closeout B" selected in the first drop-down in the upper left-hand corner. Next, click the middle drop-down, scroll to the bottom and select combined closeout. Once you have combined closeout selected you can filter by dates and groups.
The next two features, closeout report visibility and calculation considerations, will be adjusted through the account settings. Click the three horizontal bars in the upper right corner to access account settings and scroll down to report settings. Here you will see the addition of "Closeout Report Visibility Settings". This setting will allow producers to toggle how and what information is displayed on each closeout based upon individual operation needs. The first section will allow producers to select what information is displayed on the closeout reports. To display specific data or "endpoints", make sure the box next to the endpoint is checked. To hide an endpoint from the report, uncheck the box. The second section will allow producers to select how information is calculated/displayed on the closeout reports in regards to "Deads-In" and "Deads-Out". Calculations with “Deads-In” will include the value of feeding costs, delivery costs and animal health costs, etc., associated to all animals, including those costs or feed associated with cattle deaths. Calculations with “Deads-Out” will be the contrary, calculating all feed, delivery and additional costs to only those cattle still alive, excluding any costs or feed associated with cattle deaths. Producers can choose to display "Deads-In", "Deads-Out" or both for each calculation.
Note** Until these preferences are determined, the system will use the default calculations. If you have questions regarding any features of these new closeout reports please reach out to the Performance Livestock Analytics team at 515-337-2187 or at sales@cattlekrush.com. AMES, IOWA – November 12, 2018 – Performance Livestock Analytics, Inc. (PLA) announced a Series B financing round of $2.25 million today for this fast-growing provider of livestock farm management software and analytics tools. The financing will enable PLA to extend its animal nutrition and feed optimization technologies into animal health applications, individual animal traceability, and to continue its expansion into international markets.
The round was led by new PLA Board Director Erik Torgerson, who brings extensive finance and agriculture industry experience to PLA. Mr. Torgerson is an active, private investor, currently serving as Chairman of the Board at Conservis Corp. and Sentera, Inc., and as a Director at Ascus Biosciences, Inc. He previously had a 20+ year career at Norwest Equity Partners. “The PLA team has made tremendous progress since their cloud based service was launched just 20 months ago.” said Erik Torgerson, PLA Board Chair. “We see an opportunity to build a very large and valuable software company in the livestock vertical that brings powerful analytics and commerce tools to producers, making their businesses more profitable and their lives easier. PLA has great traction with the industry’s largest, most sophisticated buyers.” Performance BeefTM is an innovative, cloud based business operating system for the livestock industry that makes it easy for producers to capture and analyze feed and veterinary information, helping them operate more efficiently and maximize profitability. Performance Beef provides simple, easy-to-use hosted applications that integrate easily with the livestock producers’ existing equipment and allow producers to manage financial, operational, and performance data generated by their cattle operations. About Performance Livestock Analytics Inc. Performance Livestock Analytics provides cloud based subscription services to livestock producers, brokers, risk managers, nutritionists, animal health and animal nutrition companies. Performance BeefTM is a product of Performance Livestock Analytics Inc. For more information please visit www.performancebeef.com ©2018 Performance Livestock Analytics Inc. All rights reserved. Performance Livestock Analytics Inc. (PLA), Performance Beef and any other PLA products and services mentioned herein, as well as their respective logos, are trademarks or registered trademarks of PLA. Performance Livestock Analytics Inc. Dane Kuper, 641-420-9944 AMES, IOWA - September 21, 2018 – Performance Livestock Analytics, Inc. (PLA) has announced their flagship product Performance Beef TM platform has surpassed one million head of cattle under management. PLA’s cloud-based Performance Beef platform helps producers optimize cattle nutrition, allowing them to become more operationally efficient and more profitable, by applying data science to livestock farming.
“We are encouraged with the rapid acceptance of the Performance Beef platform by the livestock community” said Dane Kuper, PLA CEO. “One million head of cattle represents nearly 10% of the overall feeder cattle market, an important and exciting milestone for our fast-growing company.” Performance Beef is the leading business operating system in the livestock industry, a software subscription service that helps livestock producers automatically capture feed and veterinary information, essential to maximizing profitability. Through our Performance Beef platform, we provide the livestock industry with a platform that provides insights on day-to-day operational decisions, optimized, real-time feed data capture, predictive growth modeling and animal traceability. Performance Beef provides simple, easy-to-use software apps that allow livestock producers to manage all financial, operational, and performance data relative to their cattle operations. About Performance Livestock Analytics Inc. Performance Livestock Analytics provides software subscription services to livestock producers, brokers, risk managers, nutritionists, animal health and animal nutrition companies. Performance BeefTM is a product of Performance Livestock Analytics Inc. For more information please visit www.performancelivestockanalytics.com ©2018 Performance Livestock Analytics Inc. All rights reserved. Performance Livestock Analytics Inc. (PLA), Performance Beef and any other PLA products and services mentioned herein, as well as their respective logos, are trademarks or registered trademarks of PLA. Contact: Performance Livestock Analytics Inc. Dane Kuper 641-420-9944 Performance Livestock Analytics is excited to release an update to the Performance Beef software. This update will allow you the ability to build rations in dry matter percentages and maintain targets by dry matter. To enable these functions in your Performance Beef you will need to change a few settings in your account settings. To access your account settings click the three horizontal bars in the upper right-hand corner and scroll down to “Overview Settings”. There are new settings added to this section; “Target Delivery” and “Maintain Target”. Underneath the overview settings is also a new section, "Ration Settings" with "Ration Page Display" and "Maintain Ration Percentage". Overview Settings: “Target Delivery” This setting will toggle between “As Fed Only (default)” and “DMI/Day and As Fed”. When the “As Fed Only (default)” is selected it will be the view you are used to seeing in your Performance Beef account. The “As Fed Only (default)” currently allows you to set your as fed deliveries or your total target feed amounts for each pen, and each feeding. The new setting, “DMI/Day and As Fed”, allows you to set target feed amounts based on your daily dry matter intakes. This setting will generate a white box to appear on the right-hand side of the screen where these values can be set. The system will allocate the as fed weights based off of the current deliveries percentages.
“Maintain Target” Next, under the “Overview Settings” you will see a “Maintain Target” setting which will toggle between “Maintain As Fed (default)” and “Maintain DMI”. The way the system works currently is as the settings “Maintain As Fed (default)”, meaning when you switch rations from the overview or delivery pages the targets for those as fed delivery weights would remain the same. Once the setting is switched from “Maintain As Fed (default)” to “Maintain DMI” the system will maintain that designated dry matter intake and adjust as fed weights to fit that target. This works if you change rations from the overview or delivery page it will maintain the set dry matter for that pen. This dry matter will also be maintained during any head movements to or from the pens.  Ration Settings “Ration Page Display” Under this setting you will see “As Fed Percentage (default)”, “Dry Matter Percentage”, and “As Fed and Dry Matter”. The way your Performance Beef account is currently set up, rations are viewed with the as fed percentage. These setting options give you the ability to choose whether you view just the as fed percentages, just the dry matter percentages or both; as fed and dry matter percentages.
“Maintain Ration %” Previously this setting worked when feed ingredients dry matter were updated, the ration would update their percentage based on the as fed percentage. Now, since rations have the ability to be built in dry matter percentages, you have the option to select which value remain the same when you updated a feed ingredient dry matter percentage; as fed or dry matter percentage. If you have any questions about this new update or would like assistance getting them switched over in your Performance Beef account give the support line a call at 515-337-2187. |
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