CRV FeedExcel

Proven path to profitability

  • Efficient feed conversion
  • More milk
  • Positive environmental impact

Breeding for feed efficiency

CRV FeedExcel ensures a highly productive herd that delivers more milk with less feed. Simply the smartest way to higher margins and lower emissions.

Do you want to increase your revenues by breeding for feed efficiency? Try the CRV feed efficiency calculator to take control for a FeedExcel herd.

CRV feed efficiency calculator

Breeding value Feed EfficiencyIncrease in revenuesIncrease in Feed EfficiencyRevenuesProduction with the same amount of feed
114$07%$00 lbs
112$06%$00 lbs
110$05%$00 lbs
108$04%$00 lbs
106$03%$00 lbs
104$02%$00 lbs
102$01%$00 lbs
100$00%$00 lbs

Take control and increase revenues

The feed efficiency calculator shows the effect on your farm of a bull which has a breeding value feed efficiency between 100 and 114 when used on average cows (breeding value 100). Note: Enter rounded numbers, without a period or comma.

Partner with us for a FeedExcel herd with more efficient feed conversion, more milk and less emissions. Get in contact with us about your feed efficiency calculator results so we can advise you personally.

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Efficient feed conversion

FeedExcel video on high quality genetics for highly feed efficient cows

Highly productive herd

CRV FeedExcel ensures a highly productive herd that promises:

  • 25% more milk* or
  • 25% less feed*
  • and 25% less methane emissions in 2050

*Based on CRV's own research on commercial dairy farms where the 25% best cows for feed efficiency were compared to the 25% lowest.

Simply the smartest way to higher margins and lower emissions.

In a world of rising costs, stricter regulations , and resource scarcity, farmers are under increasing pressure not only to feed a growing global population but to do so sustainably. An industry leader in livestock management and genetics, with FeedExcel CRV introduces innovative new ways to help farmers reach their goals.

FeedExcel - Proven path to profitability

Positive effects of CRV’s FeedExcel

“By focussing on feed efficiency, we reduce costs significantly”
Dairy farmer Wietse Duursma

High quality genetics for highly feed efficient cows

CRV FeedExcel is backed by years of cooperation with farmers, leading developments in science, and the largest feed-intake dataset in the world based on real feed intakes from lactating cows on commercial dairy farms.

Dairy farmer Wietse Duursma is the owner of a farm with 300 dairy cows and 150 young animals. He has seen the positive effects of CRV’s FeedExcel program on his farm firsthand. The Vroege family are the owners of a dairy of 1,100 cows. These are two of the five commercial farms in The Netherlands where CRV monitors the feed intake and milk production of individual cows with feed bins.

Read more about Duursma's story or discover how a small improvement in feed efficiency had a major impact on Vroege's farm.

Opportunities to optimize your farm

"We see significant differences in feed efficiency between the cows"
Dairy farmer Elma Vroege
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Take control and increase revenues

Partner with us for a FeedExcel herd with more efficient feed conversion, more milk and less emissions. Have better insights in your profitability using the CRV Feed Efficiency Calculator.
Discover how to increase revenues