What is CHAPS?

CHAPS (Cow Herd Appraisal Performance Software) is a data intensive beef production record system produced in 1985. This computer program, originally written in DOS, was converted to a Windows format in 1998 and is available to you for downloading.

CHAPS 2000 can be described as the beef industry's tool for acquiring knowledge. The computer program tracks beef cattle production from conception to carcass, yielding the data about performance, genetics and meat quality along the way. The data then becomes the knowledge, which is the power to affect changes within an individual beef producer's herd so cow-calf producers can make the decisions necessary to produce high quality beef for the food industry.

CHAPS was developed by the North Dakota State University Extension Service through the North Dakota Beef Cattle Improvement Association (NDBCIA) and has been reviewed and approved by the National Cattlemen's Beef Association - national Integrated Resource Management - Coordinating Committee. 

The CHAPS 2000 computer program is a PC compatible program that requires at least 32 MB of RAM and at least 25.8 MB of free disk space. Click here for CHAPS 2000 Computer Specifications