Ask your farm anything. Live
Type a question the way you’d say it and get a straight answer pulled from your own records — the tags, the numbers, and where each figure came from. No menus, no report builder, no guessing.
The fastest interface to your own data is a plain question. “Which cows are still in withholding this week?” “What did the weaner steers gain this month?” “How many head on Back Block, and how many are overdue for NLIS?” Ask Your Farm answers from your records and shows its working, so you can trust the number without building a report.
It’s the foundation the rest of the assistant is built on. Under the hood it uses a set of read-only lookups against your farm data — get an animal’s history, list animals matching criteria, check compliance status — and lets ordinary code do any counting or date arithmetic. It can read your herd; it cannot change a single record.
How you get an answer.
You ask
A plain-English question — no field names, no filters to set up. Type it or, in the field app, speak it.
It looks it up
The assistant runs read-only lookups against your records and hands any counting or date maths to code, not to itself.
You get the answer + source
A direct answer with the tags and figures, and the record it came from — so you can open it and check.
Answers you can trace
Every figure comes with its provenance. Ask which cows are in withholding and you get the tags, the treatment date, the withholding period and the clear-from date — each traceable to the treatment log entry behind it. If you want to see for yourself, the record is one tap away. An answer you can’t check is just a rumour; this one you can.
It reads, it never writes
Ask Your Farm has read-only access to your records by design. It can tell you what’s there; it cannot move an animal, change a weight, or record a treatment. So there’s no way a question can accidentally alter your data, and no path for the assistant to “fix” something on its own. Recording is always a deliberate human action.
Only your farm, only your access
It answers from your operation’s own records and nothing else — your data isn’t pooled with other farms or used to train a model. And it respects the person asking: a farmhand scoped to one property can only get answers about that property, and can’t ask about the money they’re not allowed to see. The assistant is bounded by exactly the same access rules as the rest of the platform.
When it isn’t sure
If a question is ambiguous or the records don’t contain enough to answer safely, it asks or tells you plainly — “which mob do you mean?”, “I don’t have a weight for that beast since March”. It would rather be useful and honest than confident and wrong.
The detail.
| Ask by | Plain English — typed on the web, typed or spoken in the app |
|---|---|
| Answers from | Your operation’s own records, in real time |
| Access | Read-only — it can never change a record |
| Maths | Counting and date arithmetic done by code, not the model |
| Provenance | Every figure traces to a record you can open |
| Bounded by | The asker’s role and property scope; visitor PII excluded |
| Training | Your data trains nothing and is never pooled across farms |
See it on your own place.
Start free on up to 200 head — no card, no lock-in. Running a bigger show? Book a demo and we’ll set it up around how you work.