AI for Agriculture & Ranching in Montana

AI for Montana ranches, farms, and ag operations.

Calving records, hay inventory, equipment logs, grain contracts, and BLM paperwork — handled by AI you'll actually understand.

Montana runs on agriculture. From the wheat country of the Golden Triangle to the cattle operations of the Hi-Line and the irrigated valleys of the Bitterroot and Flathead, ag is the backbone — and the paperwork is crushing.

We build practical AI for Montana ag operations: tools that read scale tickets, summarize cattle records, draft USDA and FSA paperwork, track hay and feed inventory, and answer questions about your own operation in plain English. No drones, no satellites, no Silicon Valley pitch deck. Just less time at the desk and more time in the truck.

Most of our ag clients are family operations doing 500 to 5,000 head of cattle or 1,500 to 15,000 acres of small grains. We meet at the kitchen table or the shop, set it up on the equipment you already have, and train whoever runs the office — usually a spouse or a kid home from college.

What's eating your time

  • Calving records on paper, in three different notebooks
  • Hours spent transcribing scale tickets at harvest
  • USDA, FSA, and crop insurance forms eating winter
  • Grain marketing decisions made on gut, not data
  • Equipment service logs scattered across mechanics
  • Hired-hand turnover and lost institutional knowledge

How AI actually helps

Cattle records assistant

Take a photo of your calving book — AI digitizes it, tracks weights and treatments by tag, and answers questions like 'which cows aborted in 2023?' in seconds.

Scale ticket reader

Snap pictures of scale tickets at harvest. AI extracts bushels, moisture, test weight, and field, and rolls everything into a spreadsheet ready for crop insurance.

Hay and feed inventory

Voice notes from the loader cab become a running inventory of bales by field, year, and quality. Ask 'how much second-cutting do we have left?' from your phone.

Grain marketing brief

Daily AI summary of CBOT, basis at your local elevator, and what changed overnight — written in plain English, sent to your phone before coffee.

FSA & USDA paperwork drafter

Tells AI what kind of application you need (ARC/PLC, CRP, EQIP, livestock indemnity) and it pre-fills based on last year's records. You review and sign.

Equipment service log

Voice memo from the shop becomes a searchable maintenance history per piece of equipment. 'When did we last change the hydraulic fluid in the 8520?' answered in two seconds.


Tools we use

  • OpenAI GPT-4o for general reasoning and document drafting
  • Whisper for voice-to-text from the cab or the shop
  • Claude for long-document reading (lease agreements, USDA program rules)
  • Airtable or Google Sheets as the database — nothing exotic
  • Twilio SMS so the AI texts updates and you reply by text

Starter project

Ranch Office Starter

$2,400

Cattle records assistant + voice-note inventory + monthly USDA paperwork helper. Installed at the kitchen table in one afternoon.

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Questions we get

Do I need internet at the ranch to use this?

For most tools, yes — but it only needs to sync when you're in cell range. Voice notes and photos queue up on your phone and upload automatically when you hit a signal. We've set this up for operations 40+ miles from the nearest tower.

Will AI replace my hired hand?

No. AI handles paperwork and lookups. It can't ride a horse, fix a fence, or pull a calf at 2 a.m. What it does is keep your hired hands more productive by getting them out of the office and back in the field.

Is my herd data safe?

Yes. We use private enterprise configurations of OpenAI and Claude — your records are never used to train public models. Your data stays in your accounts, owned by you.

Do you understand cattle operations or just tech?

Both. We've worked with cow-calf, feedlot, and stocker operations from Lewistown to Glasgow. We won't pretend to know your country better than you do, but we won't waste your time learning what an open cow is, either.

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