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The field book for a grass‑fed farm.

Grazing records, season plans, the books, your website, newsletter and social posts. One place, built on a working farm and free for small ones.

Meadowlark Farm, a sample 160-acre grazing farm in Kentucky, run in Pasture Notes.

Instead of a records app, a website builder, a newsletter tool, a social scheduler and bookkeeping software: one place, where a price you change or a paddock you draw shows up everywhere it matters.

Grazing

Know where the herd is and how long every paddock has rested.

Draw paddocks, lanes and water on satellite imagery and the acres, slope and elevation are worked out for you. Each paddock keeps what's on it now and every move in and out.

  • Paddocks, lanes, water points and buildings on one map
  • Slope, elevation and contour lines for any paddock
  • Rest days and movement history for every paddock and herd
Map of a 160-acre farm with twelve paddocks on satellite imagery
One paddock's page with its outline, acres and the animals on it

Records

One log for everything that happens on the farm.

Herd moves, egg counts, hay fed, treatments and pasture walks all go in one place. Mark tomorrow's move done and the herd, its water tank and the map all follow.

  • Herds, flocks, individual animals, plantings and equipment
  • Moves, harvests, inputs, observations and activities with quantities
  • Filter by type, animal, paddock or date range
Log table with herd moves, egg counts, hay fed and residual checks
Asset table with the cow-calf herd, laying hens, broilers and equipment

Planning

Plans say what you're doing. The calendar says when.

Every dated task lands on one calendar, with checklists and blockers. A plan carries its tasks, files and budget, and can put proposed paddocks and buildings on the map before they exist.

  • Tasks by month, status and plan, with an overdue view
  • Planned paddocks and assets, shown on the map until they're built
  • Your own fields on tasks, filterable like the built-in ones
October task calendar with done and upcoming jobs
Winter water system plan with its files, pro forma and budget

The books

Budgets built from your real numbers. Books that speak Schedule F.

Pro formas read your head counts, acres and prices, so the budget moves when the farm does. Try a dry summer before it happens. The ledger files every dollar under its Schedule F line and ties it to the animals and plans it paid for.

  • Enterprise budgets with formulas and scenarios
  • Profit and loss for beef, eggs, broilers or anything you run
  • Cost basis for each animal group and piece of equipment
Five-year pro forma with beef, egg and broiler enterprises
Product list with prices for beef shares, eggs, chicken and pork

Selling

Sell direct without six more logins.

Edit your farm's website by clicking on the page. Its prices come from the same list as your budgets, so a price change happens once. Sign-ups become contacts, newsletters go out from your own domain, and one post reaches Instagram, Facebook and Google.

  • Farm website with a blog, order forms, search checklist and your own domain
  • Contacts and email lists people actually joined, with unsubscribes handled
  • Social posts drafted, scheduled and published from one place
Website editor showing Meadowlark Farm's home page
Newsletters with drafts and a sent issue showing 24 of 25 delivered

What the usual stack costs

Entry-level plans a small direct-to-consumer farm would pick, at list price with monthly billing, checked October 2026.

$1,692a year for five separate tools
$0a year for Pasture Notes on a small farm
Monthly cost of separate tools compared with Pasture Notes
ForTypical toolPer month
Grazing and livestock records FarmbriteLivestock Essentials $29
Farm website SquarespaceCore $39
Email newsletter MailchimpStandard, 500 contacts $20
Social posts BufferEssentials, 3 channels $15
Bookkeeping QuickBooks OnlineSimple Start $38
Separate tools, each year $1,692

Small farms

Free

Everything on this page. When online checkout arrives, a 2% fee on orders placed through your storefront, and nothing on sales you make anywhere else.

Larger operations

From $500 a month

For farms doing serious direct-to-consumer volume: marketing tied to what's actually in the freezer, margin by cut, and help moving your records over.

Bring your own AI. Keep your own data.

There's no chatbot inside Pasture Notes. Every feature comes with a tool that the assistant you already use, like Claude or ChatGPT, can call over MCP. It reads and writes your farm's records with your permission, and only your farm's.

Prefer the terminal? The pn command line and a JSON API do everything the app does, and your records export any time.

You

We moved the herd to Long Field North this morning. Anything I should know?

Assistant

Logged it: the cow-calf herd and the 300-gallon tank went from East Hill 2 to Long Field North. That paddock had 31 days of rest. The egg mobile is due on East Hill 1 tomorrow, and the heated waterer task for the Barn Lot is a week overdue.

  • get_movement_history
  • get_overdue_tasks

Built in the off-season, used every morning.

Pasture Notes started as the records for one grass-fed farm and grew into everything it needed to sell direct. If you graze, sell to your neighbors and are tired of six logins, it was made for you.

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