You know your country by driving it. RanchOS keeps score between the drives.
Rain, irrigation, heat, and the calendar all move the grass. RanchOS keeps the running total so you can tell, from the truck, which pasture is worth riding out to.
Which pasture to graze next — with the reason attached.
The questions you actually ask
Real questions. Plain answers.
“Which pasture is actually ready to graze?”
Instead of driving the whole place to eyeball it, open the app and see which pastures are probably growing and which are still too dry to turn out on.
“Why isn’t North Meadow ready yet?”
Because it’s too dry — running about 30% of normal, with no irrigation logged since the ditch closed. RanchOS tells you the reason, not just a red dot.
“How many more days of grass do I have here?”
For a pasture you’re grazing, RanchOS estimates the grazing-days left before you should rotate — so you move on your terms, not after it’s already overgrazed.
“Did that irrigation set actually help?”
Log the water you put on and watch it land in the pasture’s soil-water bank. You can see the difference a set made instead of guessing.
How it figures it out
A checkbook for soil water
No magic, no black box. It's bookkeeping for water — the same running balance you'd keep on paper if you had the time to.
Rain in
Every rain that falls on a pasture goes into its soil-water bank automatically.
Irrigation in
The water you put on — flood, sprinkler, pivot — goes in the moment you log it.
Evapotranspiration out
What the crop and the sun pull back out of the soil each day comes off the balance.
The balance
What’s left is the soil-water bank — the honest measure of whether a pasture can grow.
Rain plus your irrigation, minus what the sun and the crop pull back out. What's left in the account is whether that pasture can grow.
From soil water to a straight answer
“About 40% of normal.” Now you can plan.
The soil-water bank, the crop, and the temperature turn into a growth index you can read in a second — is this pasture growing strong, holding, or stalled out?
For the pasture you're grazing, that becomes grazing-days remaining — a head start on the rotation instead of a surprise when the grass runs short.
A plain growth number per pasture, not a mystery color.
Grazing-days left, so you rotate before you overgraze.
Per pasture or per parcel — as fine as your country runs.
North Meadow · Cool-season grass
~30% of normal growth
Too dry to turn out on yet
Why
The soil-water bank ran down over three hot, dry weeks and no irrigation has been logged since the ditch closed on the 12th. Not enough water in the ground to push grass.
Do this
Graze Cedar Hill first, or get water on North Meadow.
Tap the pasture on the map
Method
Flood · full set
Landed in the soil-water bank
South Bottom back to ~85% · growing
Logging water is one tap
Log irrigation from the ditch bank
Open your ranch map, tap the pasture you're watering, and log the set. It goes straight into that pasture's soil-water bank — so the condition you see tomorrow reflects the water you put on today.
Tell RanchOS how each parcel gets its water — flood, sprinkler, pivot, or dryland — and it reads your logs the right way for the method.
One tap on the map, no form to wade through.
Flood draws down slow; pivot schedules to ET — RanchOS knows the difference.
Works offline — log it at the headgate, it syncs later.
Not a guess
The ranch explaining itself — not an AI guessing
Every number traces back to water in and water out. Ask why a pasture reads the way it does and you get the arithmetic, not a shrug.
Drought-aware
When the rain quits, the checkbook draws down and pastures show stressed before you burn diesel finding out.
Irrigation-aware
Flood, sprinkler, pivot, or dryland — RanchOS knows the difference and reads your water into the balance.
Crop and temperature
Cool-season grass, warm-season, alfalfa — growth depends on the crop and the temperature, and RanchOS accounts for both.
Works offline
Check condition and log irrigation from the pivot point, dead zone or not. It catches up when you’re back in range.
We didn't point an algorithm at your grass and ask it to guess. RanchOS keeps an honest ledger of the water each pasture got and lost — so when it says wait, it can tell you exactly why.
Part of the whole operation
Ties into how you already run
Forage condition doesn't stand alone — it feeds the moves you make and the weather you watch.
Grazing
Pick the pasture that's ready
Days-of-rest tells you what's recovered; forage condition tells you what's actually grown. Move to the pasture that can carry the herd.
Weather
Rain and heat feed the checkbook
The same weather engine that warns you about freezes and hay windows drives the rain and evapotranspiration behind every pasture's balance.
Land & hay
Plan hay and land work around it
A pasture that's growing strong is a hay field worth watching. Condition helps you time the cut and the turnout both.
Stop driving the whole place to find grass.
Free to start. No credit card. See which pastures are growing tonight.