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Industry news, practical guides, and stories on cattle management, feedlot operations, and ranching technology.
Ag Data Transparent sat down with CattleOS co-founder and CEO Pavan Balani to talk about the record-keeping gap in cattle, why we embed technology into the way farmers already work, and what ADT Certification means for how we handle producer data.
Treatment logs, vaccination records, pregnancy checks, and calving data — comparing the real costs of keeping cattle health and breeding records on paper, in spreadsheets, and in dedicated software.
Chutes, barns, and remote pastures don't have cell service. Here's why offline-first design is the make-or-break feature in cattle management software, how sync actually works, and what to test before you buy.
The right cattle management software depends on whether you run cow-calf pairs, background stockers, or feed cattle. Here's what each operation type actually needs to track — and where general-purpose tools fall short.
EID tag support, offline capability, health and breeding logs, cost tracking — a practical checklist for evaluating cattle management software, with the questions to ask before you commit to any platform.
Comparing CattleMax, Herdwatch, AgriWebb, Breedr, Cattlytics, and CattleOS across individual animal tracking, offline capability, health and breeding records, and cost tracking — so you can pick the right fit for your herd size and operation type.
Every operation has done the count that doesn't match the books. Here's why cattle inventory drifts, what phantom head actually cost, and the movement-record habit that makes counts match every time.
Cost of gain, feed conversion, death loss, ADG — a feedlot close-out compresses five months into one page. Here's how to read one line by line, and which numbers should have been caught in week six.
Gloves, chutes, dust, and two free seconds — the field conditions that kill typed data entry are exactly where voice capture works. How AI turns a spoken sentence into a structured cattle record.
Operating loans, premium programs, VCPR requirements — the outside world increasingly runs on your records. What each audience needs, and how to produce it in minutes instead of weekends.
Average weaning weight flatters your herd; pounds weaned per cow exposed tells the truth. How to calculate it, what the number reveals about fertility and death loss, and how to raise it.
USDA's animal disease traceability rule requires electronic ID for certain cattle moving interstate. Here's who's affected, what EID actually changes day-to-day, and how to make the tags pay for themselves.
Calving date, ease score, calf vigor, dam ID — the records you keep during the busiest six weeks of the year drive culling, replacement, and bull decisions for the next five. Here's a practical system.
Cost of gain is the single number that decides feedlot and stocker profitability. Here's how to calculate it, what a good number looks like, and why most operations can't see it until months too late.
