Daily Work
You open a card and write the day.
Calving, health, weights, movement, hay, calendar, feed, mileage.
Peña Ranch
Calving2 calves this week
Health1 cow on withdrawal
Know which cows are making you money — and which ones aren't.
Your cattle and your money in one book. On your phone in the pasture, with no signal. Free while it's in beta.
- Runs a real ranch dailythe Angus operation it was built on
- Works with no signalentries wait and sync on their own
- Every dollar accounted forto an animal, a group, or the herd
- Tax time is one filethe year-end package your CPA opens
Home is the dashboard
Money is on the first screen.
Same book, two shapes — big cards on the phone, a sidebar and wider Home on a computer. The callouts stay off the screens.
- Break-even. Cash in against cash out, on Home.
- Work queue. What needs you today, sorted by urgency.
- Your ranch color. Cedar Draw is an example. Yours will look like yours.
Every head. Every dollar.
Four walks through the book. Daily Work and Breeding are the cattle. Finance and Reports are the money — you enter it, then you see it per head.
Breeding
You never type a due date.
You turn cows out or you AI. You preg-check. Projected calving comes from the AI dates and the exposure windows.
Rocking Tank Ranch
- #40709-21
- #51209-25
- #71409-28
Finance
You enter the money. Then you review.
Transactions, feed purchases, income, loans, balances. Then net worth, analysis & planning, scenarios, and the year-end CPA package.
Willow Bend Livestock
Reports
The money question, answered per head.
Herd inventory, break-even, and cost per animal. Sale prospects, cow board, feed on hand, and feed cost sit with them.
Post Oak Cattle
- #286$1,703
- #1612$1,435
- #347$1,358
What the spreadsheet makes you rebuild
- Calf on the ground
- THE SPREADSHEETYou write it down later — on a feed-store receipt, if it's handy
- HerdBasisYou open the card and write it, standing in the pasture
- What a cow costs
- THE SPREADSHEETYou rebuild the formula, and hope last year's still holds
- HerdBasisAlready on the animal, current as of your last entry
- March feed
- THE SPREADSHEETBuried in last winter's file
- HerdBasisOn the books the day you wrote it
- No signal in the pasture
- THE SPREADSHEETThe laptop stays at the house
- HerdBasisEntries wait on the phone and sync on their own
- Which cows to cull
- THE SPREADSHEETA gut call and a memory of last spring
- HerdBasisEvery cow against what you cull on, flags on the cow
- The whole year
- THE SPREADSHEETA surprise in December
- HerdBasisBreak-even running month by month, on Home
- Tax time
- THE SPREADSHEETHunt twelve months of sheets
- HerdBasisOne file your CPA opens
| THE SPREADSHEET | HerdBasis | |
|---|---|---|
| Calf on the ground | You write it down later — on a feed-store receipt, if it's handy | You open the card and write it, standing in the pasture |
| What a cow costs | You rebuild the formula, and hope last year's still holds | Already on the animal, current as of your last entry |
| March feed | Buried in last winter's file | On the books the day you wrote it |
| No signal in the pasture | The laptop stays at the house | Entries wait on the phone and sync on their own |
| Which cows to cull | A gut call and a memory of last spring | Every cow against what you cull on, flags on the cow |
| The whole year | A surprise in December | Break-even running month by month, on Home |
| Tax time | Hunt twelve months of sheets | One file your CPA opens |
If the spreadsheet works, keep it. HerdBasis is for the year it doesn't.
Fair questions
- Does it work with no signal?
- Yes. You write the day on the phone. Entries wait on the phone and sync when you are back.
- Can I bring the ranch I already have?
- Download our workbook, fill it, and drop it back. You see every row before it saves. Nothing writes until you say so.
- Is this a phone app or a computer app?
- Same book. On the phone the work is big cards. On a computer you get a sidebar and a wider Home.
- What does my CPA get?
- A year-end package from the same books. One file they can open. Not a second set of numbers.
- Whose data is it? Can I get it out?
- Yours. Export and backups are in the app. We do not lock you in.
- What does it cost?
- Free while it's in beta. There is no price on this page because there isn't one yet.
One cow, one year
Every cow, on one line.
She ate $1,350 of feed and care.
Her calf sold for $2,225.
She made you $875.
Example numbers. HerdBasis uses yours.