Bull service is the natural copulation by a purebred male carabao with a female counterpart. This is part of the bull loan agenda of the Philippine Carabao Center-Visayas State University (PCC-VSU), one of the 12 regional centers of PCC. For the past years, PCC-VSU used averaging of bull services count of previous years and sometimes did a little tweaking of the formulas in setting annual targets. Some targets fell short in the actual accomplishment that may have led to achieving lesser animal products. There is a need for resource optimization. Resource optimization through Auto-Regressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) forecasting can be used in the setting of goals of future number of copulations. This study deals with the comparative assessment of ARIMA and ANN in 4-step and 12-step ahead time series forecasting of bull services.
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