For ranchers, stockers & feedyards
Turn the herd you manage every day into a record your lender and insurer can verify.
Your herd is your collateral
When a lender can’t verify livestock, it asks for real estate. That shuts out young and beginning ranchers who don’t own land yet, producers who lease ground, operations that are growing, families whose land is held in a trust, and anyone whose land is already pledged. When cattle can count as collateral, the next generation can build credit on the herd they’re raising, not land they may never be able to buy.
AgOpen is building tools so each animal carries a verifiable identity, letting the herd itself support the conversation with your bank and insurer.
- Per-animal identity that is hard to lose or swap
- Signed records of headcount, location and liveness
- Records for USDA-verified, U.S.-born-and-raised cattle
- A shared record you, your lender and your insurer can each check
Designed around how cattle move
Cow-calf ranchers
Identify cows and calves on pasture and keep a record of who is on the place, for operating lines, breeding stock and insurance.
Stockers & backgrounders
Track headcount and location as cattle come in, graze and ship, with records that follow the animal between owners.
Feedyards
Verify headcount and liveness in the pen for financed and insured cattle, with drone data adding an independent view.
Four layers, one verified record
AgOpen is designed as a layer stack. Each layer checks the one below it, so the record a lender or insurer sees is tied to a real animal on real ground. The system is in the final stages of development.
Identity: bolus + ear tag
A rumen bolus and an external ear tag are designed to give each animal a permanent ID that stays with it for its whole life.
Drone count, weight & location
A drone will fly the pasture to count each animal, estimate its weight, record where it is, and pair it with its ID record, all without gathering or working the herd.
AgOpen-controlled computer vision
Flight imagery will be processed by AgOpen’s computer-vision inference model, running on infrastructure AgOpen controls.
The lender’s view, from their desk
Lenders and insurers will see the collateral behind each loan in AgOpen software at their desk: headcount, estimated weights and location, tied to each animal’s ID.
Your ranch data belongs to you
AgOpen will never sell your data, and lenders and insurers see only the verified record you choose to share, not your raw ranch data.
- You own your records and decide who sees them
- Data and the inference model are designed to run on AgOpen-controlled infrastructure
- Lenders and insurers see only the verified record you choose to share
In the final stages of development.
Built for the field
The AgOpen ID Tag and drone platform are in the final stages of development, with field validation next. We’ll publish specifications and performance once they’re proven on working cattle.
AgOpen ID Tag
Electronic ID that can be read at a distance, so cattle don’t have to go through a chute for every count.
Rumen bolus
A second identifier inside the animal, paired with the ear tag to guard against lost or swapped tags.
Signed records
Identity, headcount, location and liveness readings, each cryptographically signed when it is recorded.
Drone & CV weight model
Drone-captured imagery and a computer-vision model for cattle weight estimation, in the final stages of development.
Help shape the pilot
We want to hear from cow-calf operators, stockers and feedyards in the five-state region and beyond who would consider an early pilot. Joining the list doesn’t commit you to anything.