BovIQ vs Calf Keeper

BovIQ is a mobile app that improves your cattle and the land they live on using intelligent, easy-to-enter, digital records on your smartphone. It is 100% mobile, cloud-ready, which means no more clunky clipboards and broken pencils, no paperwork, and no computers. Become a smart cattleman with BovIQ, and enjoy the value of intelligent, mobile records in formats that boon your bottom line. Cattle How does BovIQ make calves more valuable? It’s in the cards. BovIQ cattle cards certify your beef. The most desirable calves on the market are preconditioned with specific criteria for things like vaccines, weaning, and castration. But you have to prove it. BovIQ keeps track of individual records with easy, accurate cattle cards that tell the valuable story of how you raise your cattle. Whether your operation is farm-to-table or cow-calf, your customers will buy with confidence because BovIQ provides the evidence. Since BovIQ automatically tracks everything from source to weaning and beyond, calves are as much as $100+ more valuable per head. And the BovIQ report suite, delivers detailed certificates about optional vaccinations, animal welfare standards, and other value-added programs. Land How does BovIQ make land more productive? It’s in the cards. BovIQ land cards ensure optimal grazing performance. For example, BovIQ has land cards that guide you step by step to know how many pounds of dry matter forage you have in a grazing area. Plus you can save transect information to easily manage a sophisticated grazing plan. Or if you have forage and land but no cattle, you can post a BovIQ message to local grazers. For the first time ever cattlemen and landowners alike can find, buy, or sell quality forage in a quantified way. By integrating cattle and land BovIQ reduces your worst expense, hay, and optimizes your greatest asset, forage. In fact BovIQ managed pastures are more productive to the tune of $200/head because it matches livestock demand with forage supply. So, whether you are managing paddock annuals or rangeland forage BovIQ ensures they remain sustainable and healthy. History BovIQ began with a rancher in New Mexico and a mobile app developer in North Carolina. Christian (the rancher) had been using complex excel worksheets for his cow-calf operation, but hated all the “office work” it required. Like most cattlemen he would rather be out moving than sitting at a desktop computer. So, he went mobile with a value-added production system that works from the Rocky Mountains of NM to the Piedmont of NC. Steven (the software engineer) adapted the idea to the simple power and ease of mobile cloud computing. Now, any good cattlemen with a smartphone can use BovIQ to integrate best practices from industry pros as well as academic Aggies.

Calf Keeper is a calving book designed to be simple, easy to use, and customizable. Users can track data about calves as they're born and also link the calves to cows and bulls in their cattle herd. A gestation calculator is also provided to calculate approximate calving dates. By upgrading to Calf Keeper PLUS, users can customize their data entry. New fields can be added to allow you to track the data that is important to your operation. Users can also track customizable scores to help build a better picture of the quality of an animal. PRO users can add up to 10 photos per animal and also invite other users to manage their herd. When changes are made by other users, you can receive a notification to stay up to date with the latest status of your herd. Before purchasing a subscription, try a free 30-day trial to see if Calf Keeper is right for your operation. Calf Keeper is powered by Cattle Market Mobile. Terms of Service: https://www.calfkeeper.com/legal/terms