For cattle ranchers Early access
Grazed Roots rebuilds your land as a living model from its real terrain, creeks, soils and rain. Put your herd on it, draw a fence, pick how long they stay, and see what the grass does next, from the kitchen table or your phone in the truck.
How it works
Setting up takes an afternoon, not a season. You bring what you already have; the platform fills in the rest from public data.
Drop in a KML from Google Earth or Google My Maps. It's rebuilt from real terrain, OpenStreetMap creeks, roads and buildings, satellite tree cover and USDA soils.
Type in your counts, or upload the herd sheet you already keep: CattleMax, AgriWebb, or any CSV or Excel file. Cows, calves, bulls and yearlings land on the map.
Say what you have, or plan to have: Grazed Roots collars, ear tags, and which water points get a walk-over scale. Smart troughs, cameras, weather stations, pumps and gates report in too.
From your phone or the kitchen table: draw fences, move the herd with a stay length, schedule the 6 am move, and watch grass, water, weights and calving respond, a day or a month at a time.
What you get back
Drag across. On the left, the public boundary of Guadalupe River State Park as a KML file. On the right, what the platform built from it on its own: terrain, river, roads, tree cover and a starting set of paddocks.
On your phone
Most days you're not at a desk. The whole ranch fits in your pocket: check the herd from the truck, see who needs a look, and draw tomorrow's paddock with your thumb.
What you can do with it
The screens below are from Double Creek, our demo ranch: 2,400 acres in Blanco County, Texas. You can open it and click around yourself.
Herd and collars
The herd card tells you what you'd otherwise count at the gate: cows, calves, bulls and how many are bred, what they eat a day and what they're gaining. Click any animal for her weight, body condition and breeding.
Walk-over scales
A walk-over scale at the trough reads each tag as the cow comes in to water. You get the average cow, her gain a day, and a short list of slow gainers to check, without running anyone through the chute.
Virtual fences and moves
Click the corners and it tells you the size, the standing grass and how many days it'll feed the herd before you've finished drawing. Pick how long they stay, and the collars walk them there, on to fresh grass.
Rain and drought
Your actual rain over the last 7, 30, 90 and 180 days, set against what's normal for those days, with the topsoil moisture and the week ahead. It says plainly whether it's enough for the grass.
Soils and carbon
Switch the ranch to forage, rest or soil carbon and the whole table recolours, paddock by paddock. Soils come from the USDA soil survey for your exact place, and the carbon in the top foot is modelled from your soils and the way you graze.
Protected areas
Draw a protected area round a creek bank, a new seeding, a wet spot or a stand of young pecans, the same way you draw a fence. The collars keep the herd out, and if you try to move cattle into one, it tells you to pick a paddock instead.
Reports
Four reports, each opening with the headline in a sentence. Every table exports to CSV, and every tab prints to PDF.
See it run
The whole ranch, one cow's collar card, the North Well scale, the ground layers, a new paddock fenced on open range and the herd moved into it across the creek. Then a jump to May, with the grass greening and the calves arriving.
Built on real data
Nothing on your ranch is made up to look nice. Each layer comes from a public source, and you can see which.
Real
Modelled
Fast-forward a week, a month or a season and every screen carries that label, so a projection is never mistaken for your ranch today.
Questions
Anything else, open the demo ranch and poke at it. It's the quickest way to see what it does.
The land is real: your boundary, terrain, creeks, roads, buildings, tree cover and soils all come from public data for your place. So is the weather: your actual rain up to yesterday, the 30-year normals and the live forecast. Your herd comes from your own counts or records. Grass growth, grazing, gain and soil carbon are modelled from those. Anything ahead of today is a projection from the normals, and it's labelled that way on screen.
No. You can set up your land and herd, plan the rotation and read the rain and drought reports without any hardware. When you set up, you say what you have, or plan to have. Collars are what move cattle on virtual fences and put them on the map; walk-over scales are what put real weights in. Animals on ear tags only are still seen at the scale and the trough.
Grazed Roots is in early access. You can create your own ranch and explore the demo ranch now. Pricing for the platform and for the collars and scales isn't published yet.
In Google Earth, draw a polygon round your place, right-click it and choose Save Place As, then KML. In Google My Maps, draw your boundary and export to KML or KMZ. If you name extra shapes "paddock", "trough", "house", "gate" or "keep out", they're placed for you. Anything missing is laid out automatically.
Yes. Upload a herd spreadsheet from CattleMax, AgriWebb, or any CSV or Excel file, and the herd is built from your own animals. Or just type in how many cows, calves, bulls and yearlings you run.
Open-Meteo, for your exact location: the observed record up to yesterday, 30-year normals, and the 7-day forecast. Every ranch opens on today's date, with the grass and soil spun up from the last two years of real weather.
Bring a KML and a rough head count. You'll be looking at your own ranch before the coffee's cold.