Welcome to HerdMASTER

Your Ultimate Livestock and Herd Management Solution

Simplify Your Farm Management

HerdMASTER is an intuitive software designed to replace your traditional stockbooks. With HerdMASTER, you can efficiently manage your livestock and herds, saving valuable time and effort.

  • Minimize Office Time: Easily connect your eID reader and scales to HerdMASTER for real-time data collection and viewing or import data later after handling.

  • Seamless Data Integration: Streamline data transfer to your Breed Society, BREEDPLAN, and NLIS databases.

  • Efficient Treatment Management: Bulk-apply treatments and events to multiple animals at once.

Enhance Your Herd's Profitability

Maximize your herd's potential with tools that help you lower costs and improve productivity:

  • Cost Reduction: Identify and remove underperforming animals to optimize resources.

  • Market Precision: Predict turnoff weights and match your animals to meet specific market demands.

  • Maintain Compliance: Ensure traceability as required by EU marketing programs.

Drive Genetic Progress

Boost your herd's genetic quality with advanced features designed to support your breeding programs:

  • Performance Data: Easily transfer performance data to BREEDPLAN.

  • Genetic Evaluations: Import and store Estimated Breeding Values (EBVs) for comprehensive genetic assessment.

  • Detailed Reporting: Utilise standard and custom reports to identify your top-performing animals.

  • Breeding Modules: Track your artificial insemination (AI) and embryo transfer (ET) programs efficiently.

Join the thousands of farmers who have transformed their livestock management with HerdMASTER. Start today and see the difference it can make for your operation.

Smart Features Designed to Save You Time

Stock Traceability Made Easy

Effortlessly integrate with NLIS, CCIA, and NAIT to ensure your records are always up-to-date and compliant with industry standards.

Crush-Side Data Entry

Save time and reduce office work by recording animal data directly in the yards. Connect a wand and weigh scales for automated data collection.

Interactive Pedigree Viewing

Visualize breeding patterns with interactive pedigree trees. Easily look up ancestors and auto-calculate breed percentages based on pedigree information.

Efficient Treatment Recording

Keep accurate records of procedures such as castration, vaccinations, or licks. Monitor batches for use-by-dates, withholding periods, and quantities to ensure effective management.

Seamless BREEDPLAN Integration

Submit reports designed for direct integration with BREEDPLAN. Import and utilize Estimated Breeding Values (EBVs) to enhance herd management and genetic evaluations.

Custom Reporting Capabilities

Leverage inbuilt reports or create custom ones to meet your specific needs. Display only the relevant information for selected animals in an exportable format.

Flexible Animal Data Editing

Easily maintain and update animal data. Edit individual records or apply changes to bulk lists of animals, saving time and effort.

Simplified Mating Tracking

Streamline data entry for matings, whether using natural methods, artificial insemination with or without synchronization, or embryo transfers. Utilise inbuilt multi-sire mating options and genetic testing to accurately determine sires in multi-sire joinings.

Experience the future of livestock management with our advanced system, designed to optimize your operations and improve your herd's performance. Start today and see the difference.

  • BREEDPLAN and society reports designed specifically for direct submission it’s easy to update your data for evaluation and recording, just click on the report that you wish to submit, select your animals and hit the submission button.

    Using the BREEDPLAN Completeness of Performance Comparison you can easily compare the data you have recorded in HerdMASTER to the data you have submitted to BREEDPLAN.

  • With online submissions, exports and imports integrating with NLIS, NAIT and CCIA you can keep track of your tags easily. HerdMASTER is the easiest way to keep your tag records up to date.

    • Retag records

    • Online tag downloads from NLIS & NAIT, CCIA exports

    • Automatic tag application for EIDS matched with visual IDs

    • Tag auditing

    • Movement submissions

    • Import tag buckets

  • Easily add and review animal information as they move through the crush. Connect a wand and scale indicator to the computer to directly scan an electronic tag into HerdMASTER and gather the weight directly from the scales.

    • Recording all traits and treatments

    • Search animal by Electronic ID or VID

    • View sale and purchase details

    • Compare to a previous worksheet

    • View animal history

    • Record retags

Head Office (Australia & New Zealand)

HerdMASTER C/O ABRI

The Short Run

The University of New England

Armidale NSW 2351
Australia

South Africa

HerdMASTER C/O AgriBSA

PO Box 543

Irene 0062

South Africa

E: herdmaster@lrf.co.za

T: +27 81 844 4853

W: www.lrf.co.za/herdmaster