Watch Tower · Applied Intelligence for your Business · Cattle ranches and feedlots

A work tracker for cattle ranches and feedlots

The goal: Keep the herd healthy and gaining, keep animal-movement and feed records in order, and know the cost per head.

Say what has to get done this week and the work tracker turns it into cards: one owner each, a due date, the truck, site or machine it touches, and the goal it moves. Your team moves the cards; the weekly review reads them.

Open the free demo A fictional company in your industry, opened in the Console. No card needed.

What you see

Work Tracker in the Watch Tower Console

An illustration of the Work Tracker with sample data: one request turned into cards in To do, In progress and Done, each with an owner and a date. — Tell it what you want done this week; you get cards with an owner, a date and a next step. An illustration with sample data. The demo opens a sample in your industry.

For owners and managers of cow-calf, stocker and feedlot operations

What it looks like for cattle ranches and feedlots

The KPIs, cards and questions below are examples of what we set up with you. The names and units are made up.

KPIs, with the assumption behind each

Cost per head per dayFeed, health and yardage cost per animal per day, per lot.Assumption: Feed cost from delivered rations; yardage at your set daily rate.

Animals with official IDAnimals that need official identification for interstate movement and have it on record.Assumption: Counted from the tag record against the movement list.

Treatment records completeTreatments with product, dose, date and withdrawal date recorded.Assumption: A treatment missing any field counts as incomplete.

Cards on the work tracker

Tag the heifers moving out of state with official electronic ear tagsHerd manager · due Thu · Lot 14
File the VFD copy for the new medicated feed orderOffice manager · due Today · Feed order 0921
Fix the float valve at the north pasture tankRanch hand · due Tue · Water point N-2

Records you already keep

Herd and tag records
Treatment and Veterinary Feed Directive records
Feed and weight records
Pasture and pen lists

Assets in the register

Pastures, pens and yards
Herds and lots
Feed trucks and equipment
Water points

Questions your team can ask Bifrost

Which lots cost the most per head per day this month?
Which animals moving next week are missing official ID?
Which treatments are still inside their withdrawal period?

Bifrost answers from the records in your own workspace and shows how each number was worked out.

How it runs

Work tracker, step by step

Tell us the goal that matters most this quarter, in your words.
We set up the board with you: your people, your assets and the recurring jobs you already run.
Each action becomes a card with one owner, a due date and the assets it touches.
Every week we review the board with you: what moved, what slipped and what's next.

The barriers this crosses

Use: What exactly would I use it for? We name the specific uses by role and by industry: the decision, the calculation, the plan, the brief.
Consistency: Will this still be useful next week? We design AI into the daily system: the Console, the toolkits and the career plan people come back to, with customer success that follows up.

Rules and facts for cattle ranches and feedlots

What the records have to show

Since 5 November 2024, official ear tags applied to cattle and bison covered by the animal disease traceability rule must be both visually and electronically readable.Source: USDA APHIS, Animal Disease Traceability
Records of Veterinary Feed Directive orders must be kept for two years by the veterinarian, the distributor and the client.Source: 21 CFR 558.6, Veterinary feed directive drugs

A summary for planning work, not legal advice. Check the source for the full rule and any state requirements.

Start

See it on a sample company first

Founding 10

$2,000 for setup and the first 3 months of Watch Tower, then $250/month. Ten places. We set up your team, goals and KPIs, asset register, map and work tracker with you, then review it with you every week.

Hardware implementation is quoted separately. Start with the demo; you can order from inside it.Open the free demo

Questions

Common questions

We keep everything in a notebook and a spreadsheet. Is that enough?

Yes. A spreadsheet of pastures, lots and tags is enough to start. We take it in during week 1 and give you a written list of what's there and what's missing.

Is this another project-management app my crew has to learn?

No. The tracker holds only the actions behind the goals you set with us, each tied to a person and an asset you already have. We add your team, set up the first cards with you and review the board every week, so nobody has to build it alone.

Can cards come from what we already track in spreadsheets?

Yes. In week 1 we take in the spreadsheets or system exports you already keep and turn the recurring jobs in them into cards, with a written list of what was there and what was missing.

What does Watch Tower cost for cattle ranches and feedlots?

Founding 10 covers setup and the first 3 months in one payment, then a monthly price; the numbers are on this page and on the pricing page inside the demo. Hardware implementation is quoted separately.

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