PaddockPath · Across the supply chain

When cattle change hands, their records go with them.

Farm, Producer and Feedlot each run one kind of business. As cattle move between them, what one records reaches the next.

  1. Breeding farm runs on Farm

  2. The owner runs on Producer

  3. Feedlot 1 runs on Feedlot

  4. Processor

Book cattle in, and the feedlot has the booking before the truck leaves.

The owner asks from PaddockPath Producer; the feedlot accepts in Feedlot, and both are looking at the same arrival.

In Producer

Booking · 2 Oct

64 head into Feedlot 1

Arriving
Tue 6 Oct
From
Backgrounding block
PIC
QXBG0412
In Feedlot

Expected arrival

64 head, Tue 6 Oct

Owner
Booked in from Producer
From
Backgrounding block
Status
Accepted

What arrived goes back to the owner, animal by animal.

The feedlot saves the arrival and each induction, and they’re on the owner’s books.

In Feedlot

Arrival · 6 Oct

64 head received

Turned away
None
Steers
64, avg 412 kg
NVD
7341 0098
In Producer

Feedlot 1 · 6 Oct

64 animals inducted

Each
EID, tag and class
Weighed
Avg 412 kg at induction
Lot
L-1006

While they’re on feed, the owner sees their weights, feed and cost to date.

Weights from the crush and each head’s share of the feed and fees reach the owner’s books, against the same animals.

In Feedlot

Lot L-1006 · 3 Dec

64 head, day 58

Weighed
Avg 514 kg
Feed
58.6 t as fed
Charged
$24,128
In Producer

Feedlot 1 · 3 Dec

64 head on feed

Weight
Avg 514 kg, up 102 kg
Feed
916 kg a head
Cost
$377 a head

The kill sheet finds its way back to the breeder.

Each carcase goes back to the farm the animal was born on, against its dam and its sire.

In Processor

Kill sheet · 14 Jan

72 bodies

HSCW
Avg 318 kg
Marbling
On each body
Body no.
With its tag
In Farm

Sire · Bull 3

27 calves killed

HSCW
Avg 326 kg
Graded
24 of 27 MSA
Joining
Next season sees it

Your records

Each business keeps its own.

Records pass between two businesses only under an agreement both of them accept, and either can end it.

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