Get out of the office. Get back farming.
Herd is a voice-first farm management system for New Zealand dairy farms. Speak what's happening while you're doing the work. Herd prepares the records and the follow-up. You check it, and confirm it.
Built with a working dairy farm in Balclutha
Farmers already do the work. The admin is what breaks.
3 hours
A week rebuilding the day at the kitchen table, writing in the paper diary.
Scattered
Treatments, stock, tasks and notes split across apps, paper and memory.
Missed follow-up
A withholding in someone’s head. A recheck forgotten. Work entered twice, or not at all.
One moment of farming → complete operational cascade.
A farmer spots a lame cow. She says it once. Herd does the rest.
Cow 357 is lame on the right front. Gave her Metacam, 20 mils. Three doses remaining.
About 7 seconds to say
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Logs the observation
Lameness, right front, scored.
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Creates the treatment record
Metacam, 20ml.
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Creates a task to move her to the lame herd
Ready for the next drafting.
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Starts withholding countdowns
Milk clears in 3.5 days. Meat in 10.
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Decrements Metacam from inventory
Alerts if stock is getting low.
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Adds her to the treatment whiteboard
Dose tracking stays visible.
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Creates the follow-up dose tasks
Three doses, one per day, over the next three days.
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Schedules a recheck
"Check Cow 357 in 3 days."
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Includes her in tomorrow’s morning briefing
Picked up on the next farm walk-through.
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Builds the audit trail
Audio, transcript, record, farmer confirmation.
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Adds to her animal history
Searchable, forever.
That's not eleven features. That's one moment of farming where the entire admin cascade handled itself. The farmer never stopped working.
farm more. admin less.
Built for the working dairy farm.
One voice-first workflow running across the whole farm — all of this is live in the prototype today.
Voice-first capture
Farmers speak the job while they are doing it. Herd does the rest and hands it back for confirmation.
Treatments
Animal condition, product, dose and follow-up doses prepared from a single spoken update.
Withholdings
Milk and meat withholding countdowns start automatically and stay visible until they clear.
Inventory
Stock adjusts as treatments and jobs happen. Restock reminders before anything runs out.
Tasks and follow-up
Rechecks, dose reminders, paddock jobs and worker instructions — created from the same voice update.
Timesheets
Worker hours captured by voice and approved on the phone. No spreadsheet at the end of the week.
Multilingual staff coordination
Workers can speak and receive instructions in their own language. Translation handled by Herd.
Daily and weekly reports
A clear picture of what happened on farm, ready at dinner time and at the end of the week.
Calendar, animals, herd moves
Animal history, herd and paddock movements, and scheduled events in one shared view.
Farm maps and contractor nav
Paddocks, tracks, gates and hazards mapped. Real-time navigation for contractors and relief staff.
Paddock and crop information
Crops, grazing history, breaks and feed planning tied to the paddock you are standing in.
Health and safety meetings
Meetings recorded, transcribed, and kept with a clear audit trail. Attendance logged.
Works offline
No signal in the back paddock? Recordings queue on the device and sync when the phone is back online.
The farm’s working memory
Every confirmed update builds a clearer picture of animals, paddocks, crops and inventory over time.
"3 hours a week in the diary. Now about 15 minutes of voice."
Beta farmer, Otago
Built with a farmer,
for farmers.
A small New Zealand team. One side builds the product end to end — the mobile app, the voice workflow, the AI extraction, the confirmation flow, the maps and the rest of the system.
The other side is on farm. A practising dairy farmer in Balclutha uses Herd in real farm conditions every day, and shapes how treatments, inventory, tasks, paddocks and briefings actually behave on a working farm.
The rest of the team covers brand, events, farmer communication and the work that keeps Herd connected to the community it serves.
Built in Balclutha
For New Zealand dairy farms
Lift the weight off farmers. Get them back to farming.
The app handles the admin. The rest of Herd is the support around it — events, community and the kind of backing that keeps New Zealand dairy farmers connected to the work they love.