# HonestCattle — Ranch & Herd Management

> Ranch & Herd Management (iPhone/iPad app by Dirk Adams.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/honestcattle/id6760239570 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Dirk Adams](https://appshunter.io/developer/1866639144)
- Category: Business, Productivity
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 9+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 9 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-05-05
- Data updated: 2026-07-22
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/honestcattle/id6760239570/reviews.md

## What is HonestCattle?

Honest Cattle — Market Intelligence for Ranchers. Built for working cattle producers who want the same market signals the feedlots and packers see, on the same day they see them. No accounts, no subscriptions,  
  no ads. Live Montana auction results: Billings Livestock Commission (BLS) and Public Auction Yards (PAYS) sale data parsed daily from USDA AMS reports — steers, heifers, bulls, and cows aggregated by 50-pound   
  weight bucket with head-weighted average price, plus direct links to the AMS PDF for every sale. Rancher Share of Retail Beef: monthly USDA ERS Meat Price Spreads with a Price Transmission Index that flags when 
  the rancher's slice of the beef dollar slips below the 5-year average — color-coded NORMAL above 41 percent, WARNING below 40, CRITICAL below 38. Grid pricing and the futures curve: the Live Cattle, Feeder      
  Cattle, and Corn contracts that determine your fall calf bid, anchored to the slaughter window of the cattle you place this fall, with a UNL-ISU break-even calculator so you can see what corporate feedlots are
  willing to pay before the auction phone call. Five-area cash fed cattle and the Choice Boxed Beef Cutout, the leading signal for verified-quality calf premiums on a 5-9 month flow-through lag. The full HC Weekly
   Market Forecast from honestcattle.net delivered to your phone — executive summary, quarterly calf price ranges, week-over-week changes, and the data behind the call. Ranch weather: a fixed-location ranch
  forecast plus a current-location card, with a 5-day precipitation outlook, gust-aware wind chill, and feels-like temperatures, backed by NOAA. Park County conditions: snowpack vs the 10-year median, NRCS forage
  score, water-year precipitation as a percentage of normal, USDM drought class, USGS streamflow percentile. Herd records, local and private: add animals with a tag number, breed, sex, and date of birth; take or
  pick a photo per animal; keep calving and treatment records with withdrawal-date tracking; all data lives on your device, nothing leaves the phone. Data sources: USDA Agricultural Marketing Service, USDA
  Economic Research Service, USDA NASS, CME Group via Barchart public quotes, NRCS SNOTEL, NOAA, USGS, US Drought Monitor. Honest Cattle (honestcattle.net) is the independent companion publication — every weekly
  forecast, research paper, and dataset visible in the app is also on the website, free to read. Built by Dirk Adams with the assistance of AI. No tracking, no analytics SDKs, no third-party ads.


## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 2.3 (9) — 2026-07-10

New: the Calf Check tab. Know what your calves net at the gate — after the price slide and the truck to Billings — and which way of selling pays you most. Free, no login, your data stays on your phone.

### 2.2 (8) — 2026-06-24

(release notes for 2.2)

Redesigned Market tab
A cleaner read on where your calves are headed — the weekly forecast now connects straight to the futures it's built on, with quarterly outlook, grid futures, and the Billings and Montana auction pulse all in one place.

Summer video auction results
Follow the summer video series (NLVA, Superior, Western Video) as the sales run. Feeder steer results for the North Central region post automatically, in $/cwt with head counts.

Rancher Share & Price Transmission Index
See the rancher's share of all-fresh retail beef and how it compares to the 5-year average — so you know whether the market's passing value down the chain.

Herd import & export
Bring your whole herd in from a CSV, TSV, or Excel file, attach photos to animal records, and export or print clean herd reports to share.

iPad ready
Full support for iPad, including multitasking.

Plus performance improvements and bug fixes.

### 2.0.0 (5) — 2026-05-05

No release notes.

## More apps by Dirk Adams

- [FAT App - Meat Label Scanner](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fat-app-meat-label-scanner/id6757405468)

All apps by Dirk Adams: https://appshunter.io/developer/1866639144

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