MSUES Cattle Calculator vs USDA PPRL
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MSUES Cattle Calculator
This app assists beef cattle producers with essential daily calculations for reproductive management, animal performance, and operational decisions. It offers tools for breeding and calving dates, weight adjustments, medication dosages, and more.
- Reproductive management calculations
- Animal performance tracking
- Dewormer and medicine dosage calculations
- Frame score and trailer stocking density
- Breeding season planning
- Adjusted weight calculations
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The MSUES Cattle Calculator allows beef cattle producers to make quick everyday calculations important for their operations. Calculations related to reproductive management, animal performance, and management decisions are available. Reproductive calculations include: calving date based on a known breeding date, breeding date based on a known calving date, number of days pregnant based on today's date and a breeding date, and a breeding season calculator which provides calving and breeding dates based on a set breeding season. Animal performance calculations include: Adjusted birth weight, weaning weight, and yearling weight, average daily gain and required gain. Management calculation include: dosage calculations for dewormers and medicines given an animal weight and manufacturer's recommended dosage, frame score calculations, trailer stocking density, and yield grade.
USDA PPRL
This app helps livestock owners identify poisonous plants to prevent animal loss. It provides a searchable database of toxic flora and allows users to report livestock poisonings to the research lab.
- Identify poisonous plants
- Searchable plant database
- Prevent livestock loss
- Report livestock poisonings
- Awareness of toxic flora
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The Poisonous Plant Research Lab App by USDA is aimed to help livestock owners (Ranchers) in preventing/minimizing the loss of their livestock by giving them awareness about poisonous plant. The app will allow a rancher to search for poisonous plants using the information provided in the Application via bulletin 415. Users will be able to contact PPRL to report their livestock poisoning.
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Verdict
MSUES Cattle Calculator and USDA PPRL both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of USDA PPRL's written reviews are positive against 75% of MSUES Cattle Calculator's. USDA PPRL also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months). MSUES Cattle Calculator's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for MSUES Cattle Calculator against 4.8 for USDA PPRL. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 4 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of MSUES Cattle Calculator's written reviews are positive against 100% of USDA PPRL's.
MSUES Cattle Calculator ships an update every 4 months, USDA PPRL every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MSUES Cattle Calculator | USDA PPRL |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (4 ratings) — better | 4.8 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Mississippi State University Extension Service | Utah State University |
Customer experience
MSUES Cattle Calculator
USDA PPRL
In-app purchases
MSUES Cattle Calculator
No in-app purchases
USDA PPRL
No in-app purchases
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