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What would actually help on a cattle operation?

I raise dairy sheep in Oregon, and I built GrazerOne to keep the records for my own sheep: animals, health, breeding and grazing. Before I build anything for cattle, I want to hear from the people who'd use it.

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Picture the whole herd in one place

Here's roughly what that spreadsheet, notebook or barn whiteboard could become: every cow, heifer, bull and steer in one list you can sort and search, with what needs doing today pulled to the top.

  • Find any animal in seconds by tag, name or sire
  • See what's coming: due dates, dry-offs, preg checks and withdrawals
  • Grass and records together, so you can see which paddock is ready, and why
Mockup of a GrazerOne cattle herd screen on a laptop: counts of milking, dry and due cows, a table of dairy and beef animals with tags, days in milk, milk weights, SCC and breeding status, and a Needs attention list with a milk withdrawal alert

A made-up farm and my rough guess, not a product yet. Tell me what's wrong or missing. Tap to enlarge.

What GrazerOne does today

So you know where this is coming from: one place for animals, health, breeding and grass, built to use with one thumb in the barn.

GrazerOne Today screen listing what needs attention on the farm
What needs doing todayWhat's due, what needs attention, and today's grazing call, on one screen.
An animal's record with its health, weights and breeding history
Every animal's storyTag, health, withdrawal dates, weights and lineage in one record.
The grazing view suggesting which paddock is ready next, with its reasoning
Which paddock is readyRest and regrowth tracked for each paddock, with a reason for every suggestion.
The breeding screen with expected due dates
Breeding and due datesWho's bred, to whom, and when to expect them.

Shown with our sheep and goat demo farm. Cattle would get their own version, shaped by your answers.

Why I'm asking

This came up talking with a local farm family: a lot of dairy and beef operations still run on one big spreadsheet, with animals, breeding, treatments and pasture all in one file. Trying to make sense of a whole farm that way is frustrating, and it's a real worry when one file is the only record of everything.

The software that's out there doesn't seem to have helped much either. It costs too much, misses what a smaller operation needs, or is so hard to use it ends up back in the drawer. I'd like to know whether that matches your experience.

I want to help fix that, but only if I build the right thing. Your answers decide whether a cattle version gets built at all, and what it does first. There are no wrong answers, and "it's a mess" counts.

— Casey Hettman, Oregon

What you'll be asked

  • Your operation: dairy, beef or both, and how you graze and sell
  • Your records today: what you dread keeping up, and what it's cost you
  • What you've tried: and why it didn't stick
  • Organic paperwork: only if you're certified or transitioning
  • What matters most: pick your top 3
  • Anything I didn't ask: the part you actually want to say

About 15 minutes. Skip whatever you like.

I won't share or quote anything without asking you first. Rather talk it through? Email casey@confluencedigital.net and I'll call you.

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