The Cattleman's Assistant is a contemporary Windows application for Windows 95-XP and Vista Versions (and Macs running "Virtual PC").
Our " Cattleman's Assistant " is an exciting new program developed for both the Commercial Cattleman and the Cattleman with registered herds . This program covers all your ranch data tracking needs, from cattle, herds, herd movement, and also pastures, cropland, feedlots you use, leases, horse remuda, machinery, machinery repair, and full accounting to track expenses and income. This program will also give you reports for progeny evaluation of your herd sires and cows, showing both the good and not so good progeny charactertics.
We have over 30 reports to provide you with hardcopy for everything from what, when and how spring branding went, your latest auction results to progeny reports for your cows and herd sires and tracking leases and your farming for your hay and other crops. We'll also provide expense and income reports broken out by category for your CPA and professional looking invoices for billing your customers, and really much more.
The window below shows all of the subjects concerning your ranching operation that is covered by this product.
We have two unique windows for entering your cattle. A window geared to the commercial cattleman and a window geared to the registered operation.
The window shown below is for entering registered cattle. If all your bulls and cows are entered and all their calves, and both the bull and cows tag no. is given for each calf, then a database query can list all the offspring for a report showing progeny profiles for any cow or bull. Then add EPD's for registered animals, entered calving problems for any calves and the progeny report then truly helps show a picture down the road of how your breeding program is working. This window can be setup to also enter data on non-registered animals, so the same technique is available for the commercial cattleman.
We have windows for tracking virtually any aspect of your operation, from your machinery/facilities to your pastures, leases, cropland, feedlots and tracking events such as spring branding. private treaty sales, auctions and the movement of cattle. The window below allows you to define and track (along with the equipment repair window) all your machinery, equipment and facilities.
The window below provides a calendar to not only schedule events, but review them and read what you wrote about the event and get reports, it even allows you to label categories for events and then narrow down your review to those specific events and then pick the time range.
The two windows below show a partial list of the 43 reports that are provided already designed and provided with the program (there is also all the normal income, expense and invoicing reports available thru the "Accounting Reports" TAB.). The program also comes with a simple report writer to allow you to create your own reports.
The features and specific subjects that are tracked and can be reported on with paper copy is listed below.
* All your Cattle , get cow/calf cross reference reports, and eartag list of all animals, and for herd sires and cows, you can get a progeny report which can include, all their charactertics plus problems noted during calving. We also have a window to allow entering EPDs for those bulls and cows which you have that data, and that will show up on the progeny report to determine if those traits are following thru.
* Breeding Events . Input and track all breedings. That may be introducing a bull to a herd for a season, or doing AI on selected cows or if you are doing embryo transfers. Each specific instance is entered and available for review or getting reports.
* Define " Herds ", what pasture they are currently in and enter the "Movement of Herds" to your using pastures, leases. Get instant reports of that past history.
* Define a label and record all the Land you use or even lease out and its size, characteristics and irrigation. This would be pastures, croplands used for hay or feed, and feedlots you own or use. There is a separate window for entering any land improvement, what was done, what it still needs, and the costs.
* Define all your Machinery and Facilities. This is used later for entering any repair costs as they occur tagged to each individual item.
* List all your Herds and Herd Movement. You can track movement of herds (or leasee's herds) as they are driven to various pastures at different times during the year, and how they did on pasture. At any time a herd is listed as on one of your defined pastures, and cattle are assigned to a herd. Of course for simplicity you could just have one ranch herd.
* Define your Leases (this is cross referenced to the labeled land, pastures, feedlots defined above). This window allows entering costs, method used to determine costs, and if you improved any of your leases. All leases are tied back to accounts used in the accounting portion of the program.
* Simply but very efficient Accounting . If data for expenses and income is entered daily as they occur in your ranching operation, creating reports and invoices as required is extremely easy. The Reports window also does invoicing, created simply by point and click from income ledger entrees. You only have to select the customer and the time period.
We provide updates regularly to the web for download (a login in is given to all purchasers) for continual improvements and enhancements. All our products include a paper manual and Windows based On-Line Help.
