March 2026 NEBRASKA CATTLEMAN 29 Krueger says. “On the cattle health side of things, it’s been super helpful to have a quick way to see what all I have in the hospitals from each pen and origin without having to make multiple trips back to the office. I can see where everything’s at, where we moved things and what it’s being fed.” The app and its algorithms are shaving hours of work off already hectic schedules. In addition to centralizing information in one location, it allows users to step back and understand the bigger picture. “It has been a huge help. It takes the information that we need and organizes it with some really nice visuals that make it easy to read quickly,” Krueger says. “Using the app saves us a lot of time, and we noticed it right away. We don’t have to make constant trips back to the computer for information. All of our employees, of all ages, are really pleased with it.” Processing Sustainable Beef is a producer-owned beef processing plant in North Platte that opened in May of 2025. The state-of-the-art facility is driven by a desire to be leaders in quality, food safety and animal welfare. Top center photo: Algorithms are trained to observe prod use and slips or falls in order to help maintain animal welfare compliance at the Sustainable Beef processing plant in North Platte. Photo courtesy of Lumachain, from the camera itself. isting data entry programs, allowing employees to continue their data entry (i.e., feed deliveries, bunk scores, etc.) without having to learn a new program. The AI takes all of the data from your various programs, including programs that track feed and rations, and creates usable analytics formats, which allows users to make decisions faster. Cattlytx stacks the information from your existing programs into one user-friendly interface. “The goal is to take your feed rations and stack that with real-time weather data and historic weather data, origin of sale barn or rancher, and this is how those animals performed over the last 10 years. And, based on that performance data, growth curve, and based on today’s weather and the predicted weather over the next two weeks, the system can recommend the ration we should be feeding, the protocol we should be using for health and our performance goal at the end of this cycle,” explains Andrew Uden, CEO of HerdDogg and Cattlytx. Cattlytx can be accessed using an app on your phone. “Using the app makes it pretty easy when you’re driving around to pull up each pen and see where they’re at,” CONTINUED ON PAGE 30
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