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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/dickinso/chaps/ndbcia.htm

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