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Transform Your Animal Science Classes with Ranch Vision

Ranch Vision is an advanced tool that transforms the educational experience for animal science and agribusiness students. Ranch Vision is a revolutionary new approach to understanding and managing grazing livestock operations, using an interactive, forward-looking digital model. By incorporating Ranch Vision into your curriculum, students will gain hands-on experience in ranch management.

Your students will use Ranch Vision to test the impact of real ranching decisions on the ranch business and learn how to manage for profit. Students input specific ranch scenarios and receive detailed projections and insights. This process helps them answer the fundamental question, “What will happen to my ranch business in the months and years ahead?”

New tools for a new generation in ranching.

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Using Ranch Vision, students will learn to conduct quick and effective cost-benefit analyses on virtually any ranch management decision. Generate dozens of comprehensive reports covering key markers of the ranch operation, including:

  • Herd sizes

  • Sales

  • Purchases

  • Cash flow

  • Gross margins

  • Grazing demands

  • Enterprise efficiency

  • Replacement costs

  • Breakeven values

  • Profit and loss

  • Balance sheets

  • And more, including numerous measures of profitability, solvency, and liquidity.

There is nothing else like this on the market. Students can analyze “what-if” scenarios for hands-on learning, equipping them with the skills needed to make strategic, data-driven decisions that optimize ranch operations and ensure long-term profitability.

Teach How to Manage for Profit with Ranch Vision

See Ranch Vision in action!

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 Watch a real example of a young rancher learning to manage his operation with Ranch Vision.

What educators say:

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"It's extremely easy to use. It stimulates ideas in order to maximize profits through enterprise analysis. This program helps producers to develop a strategy to maximize their profits, a must in today's ranching industry."

 

Dr. Mike Hall

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

Download a FREE sample homework assignment:

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See how you can incorporate Ranch Vision in your classroom.

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Why Ranch Vision?

KEY FEATURES

  • Interactive computer model of grazing livestock operations.

  • Forecasting the ranch business up to 5 years in the future.

  • Comprehensive reports on herd sizes, sales, purchases, cash flow, and more.

  • Tools for cost-benefit analysis, scenario planning, and strategic decision-making.

BENEFITS FOR STUDENTS

  • Learning beyond basic analysis and management

  • ​Hands-on experience with industry-leading software

  • Development of critical thinking and analytical skills

  • Preparation for real-world ranch management challenges.

Explore Some of Our Key Features

Herd Number Reports

Preview expectations for your livestock herds in the coming years.

  • How will Ranch Vision help my ranch?
    Failure to plan is planning to fail. As a business owner, you must know your numbers. Until you know where your operation stands today, you can’t grow tomorrow. Ranch Vision allows you to plan for profit. We’re the only profit-planning software built specifically with the complex needs of grazing operators in mind.
  • Is Ranch Vision a desktop or mobile app?
    Ranch Vision can be used on all your desktop and mobile devices.
  • I already have a record-keeping app. Why do I need Ranch Vision?
    Ranch Vision is NOT a record-keeping app. Our goal isn’t to keep track of your numbers, there are other programs that do that. Ranch Vision exists to help you improve your numbers and increase your profit. Ranch Vision is the ONLY profit planning program designed SPECIFICALLY for grazing operations. By inputting your data, our software crunches the numbers and details the profit you can expect and ways to maximize your profit.
  • Does Ranch Vision work for my cow calf operation?
    Yes! Our program is designed for cattle operations. We offer a cattle rancher panel designed just for you.
  • Is Ranch Vision available outside the U.S.?
    Ranch Vision is used by producers across the world. It is not limited by location. Our direct local and National market price feature is available for most English speaking countries including the U.S, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the U.K and South Africa.
  • Does Ranch Vision work for a goat operation?
    Absolutely. Ranch Vision was designed for goat, sheep, or cattle ruminant grazing operations. Ranch Vision offers a specific goat operation panel with mohair profit options and more.
  • Is Ranch Vision a program for sheep operations?
    Yes! Ranch Vision has a panel designed specifically for sheep grazing operations with wool profit options and more.
  • What if I have sheep and goats? Or cows and sheep? All three? Can I use Ranch Vision for my multi-ruminant operation?
    Yes! Ranch Vision can accommodate mixed ruminant operations with separate panels designed for each component of your ranch operation and both separate and aggregate profit numbers and charts.

Ready to Integrate Ranch Vision into Your Curriculum?

Contact us to schedule a live demo and learn how Ranch Vision will enhance your animal science program and equip students with practical, hands-on experience.

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