Rangely keeps the whole life of every head you own — and tells you how much grass is actually in front of them, and when to move.
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Every rancher I know runs on some combination of the three. It works right up until it doesn't.
Weights, treatments, who her dam was — scattered across notebooks and calving records. When you sell her, the history doesn't go with her.
You know roughly what a pasture holds. But "roughly" is the difference between moving on time and grazing it into the dirt.
It's either enterprise gear priced for a feedlot, or a toy. Nothing in between for an outfit that still knows its cattle by sight.
Add her at birth or bring her history in when you buy her. Weights, sire and dam, treatments, breeding, notes, photos — one timeline that keeps growing and goes with her when she sells.
BasicScan a tag and her record opens. Electronic ID stays attached to the animal, so lab results and movement records land on the right head — not the wrong one.
BasicLog forage with an eyeball call as you move cattle in and out, and see how many days of grazing are standing in front of them in each pasture.
BasicIt learns your pastures' real regrowth rate from your own readings, ranks them by what's actually ready, and lays out the next moves with the reasoning behind each one. Nothing happens until you say so.
ProReal average daily gain from her weigh-ins, a projected finish date, and a load-out calculator that prices the trailer with shrink taken out.
ProEPDs and genomic status, ultrasound scans, carcass results, and lab work that flags anything out of range. The record a seedstock or freezer-beef buyer wants to see.
ProEvery operation keeps a calving record, so that part shouldn’t sit behind a paywall — and for everyone who joins the early list, it stays free for as long as you keep your account. Paid plans will be priced by herd size, so a twenty-cow outfit and a two-thousand-head place won’t pay the same. We’ll set those prices once real ranches have used it, not before.
The record every outfit already keeps, done properly. Join the list and you’re first to use it the moment it’s ready.
Everything in the Calving Book, carried on past weaning to every head you own.
Everything in Herd Record, plus the numbers you make decisions on.
We don’t build hardware. These connect Rangely to equipment and data you already have, or extend it once the core is solid.
Built in the order ranchers actually ask for them. Join the list and you get a say in that order.
These screens show Rangely as it will be when it’s finished, running on sample cattle. It resets when you reload, because real accounts with saved data are exactly what we’re building now. Early access members get all of it first.
Most outfits wear more than one hat at once. Rangely doesn't make you pick a lane.
Calving records, parentage, weaning weights, and grazing rotation — the working core of the operation, from twenty head to two thousand.
Finishing for the freezer trade, where gain, carcass data, and a provenance story your buyer can actually read are worth real money.
EPDs, genomics, and pedigree that travel with the animal — so when you sell her, the buyer gets the whole record, not a scanned page.
The one place it isn't a fit: feedlot and commodity work, where cattle move as a lot instead of as animals.
Our family came down from Iowa and started running cattle in Florida in the early 1930s. The same ground has been in the family for close to a hundred years now. Plenty has changed across those decades — the markets, the equipment, the weather, who's in the saddle — but the loyalty to this land and this way of life hasn't.
This project started with my dad and a notepad. He kept every herd record in a little book he carried with him — weights, breedings, treatments, which cow threw which calf. The trouble was he'd lose it. Set it down somewhere, leave it in the wrong truck. So by the time we were working cows, the record was whatever he could remember.
And it worked, mostly. He had a good memory and he knew his cattle. But a memory doesn't transfer. It doesn't go with an animal when she sells, it doesn't help the next person working the chute, and it can't tell you how much grass is standing in the back pasture. Those are solvable problems now.
There are hundreds of thousands of operations like this across America — families who've kept the same ground in cattle through droughts, hurricanes, bad markets, and better offers from developers. Most of them are still running the whole thing out of a notebook and a good memory.
That's not a failure of the people. It's a failure of the tools. Everything built for this industry got built for the biggest operations, priced for the biggest operations, and designed by people who've never had to sort cattle in the rain.
Rangely is for the rest of us. The grass engine exists because "move them Tuesday" was always a guess. The lifelong record exists because cattle get bought whose whole history shows up as a photocopied page, if at all. It gets tested at the trailer and at the chute — if it doesn't work with cold hands and one bar of signal, it doesn't ship.
Public resources that help ranchers run better operations. We're not affiliated with any of them — they're just genuinely useful and most people don't know they exist.
Daily auction summaries and regional cattle price reports. The public reference for what cattle are actually bringing.
Conservation practice standards and cost-share programs, including prescribed grazing and watering facilities.
Your land-grant university's local office. Forage trials, soil and forage testing, and regional grazing data — usually free or close to it.
The federal rules on official identification and interstate movement, including electronic ID requirements.
National Cattlemen's Beef Association — policy, industry news, and links to state affiliate associations.
USDA loans, disaster assistance, and program deadlines in one place, without the agency alphabet soup.
Rangely is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any organization listed here. Links are provided for convenience only.
We're bringing on a small group of ranchers first — people who'll use it on real cattle and tell us straight what's wrong with it. No cost, no card. You'll hear from me directly, not a sales team.
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Grazing, records, tags, and the business of running cattle — from someone doing it, not writing about it.