Pasture Management Software: Map Paddocks, Track Grazing & Rest Days Free

Pasture management software helps you see your land, know where your cattle are grazing, and plan rotations without relying on memory or fence-line notes. If you run more than one paddock, move groups during the season, or ever wonder which field rested long enough, you need something better than a notebook. Cattly maps your pastures, logs every herd move, tracks rest days, and ties back to your animal records. It is the same app you use for breeding, health, and feed — not another subscription for pasture only.

Paper charts go stale the first time you move cattle on a Tuesday instead of a Thursday. Grazing management software shows live status: which pasture is active, which is resting, which is ready. Cattly color-codes paddocks on the map and keeps an immutable movement log, so you can answer "where were these cows two weeks ago?" without digging through the pickup cab. Rotational grazing typically carries 20-30% more cattle on the same acres than set-stocking — but only if you actually rotate on schedule.

Yes. Draw pasture boundaries directly on satellite imagery in your browser. No API keys, no collar hardware, no per-acre mapping fee. Trace fence lines with the polygon tool, name the paddock, pick a land type, and the software calculates area in acres or hectares. Add markers for water tanks, gates, mineral feeders, and barns so new help knows the layout.

Stocking rate depends on forage production, rainfall, grazing system, and animal size — not a single national average. Cattly shows live density per pasture using Animal Units (AU), DSE, Livestock Units, or simple head per acre from your herd weights. For planning new purchases or lease decisions, use our free stocking rate calculator: enter acreage, forage estimate, and animal type to get a recommended head count and AUM breakdown.

It depends on the land. Improved pasture often needs about 28 days. Native rangeland might need 45. Sacrifice lots and woodland can run longer. Cattly sets defaults by land type and lets you override per pasture. When rest days hit the target and no herd is assigned, the paddock shows ready-to-graze so you do not have to do mental math at gate time.

Yes. Moves happen at the flock level by default, but you can flag individual animals with a pasture override — useful for sick pens, bulls on separate paddocks, or a heifer group held back. Overrides stay put when the main flock moves. Every exception is logged in the grazing movement history.

Pasture shows up as a feed type in your ration workflow. When forage condition is excellent, Cattly can suggest lowering supplemental feed — advisory only, you decide what to log. Hay fields and non-grazeable land stay off the rotation map so you do not accidentally move a herd onto ground you are cutting for hay.

Most pasture apps charge per acre or per head before you finish drawing fences. AgriWebb and similar platforms run thousands per year for full features. Cattly is free — mapping, movements, rest tracking, stocking math, and your full cattle records in one place. We built it for ranchers who already use Cattly for calving and health data and do not want a second invoice for grass management.

Yes. Unlimited pastures, unlimited animals, movement history, map export, and stocking views — no trial that expires, no per-acre upsell. We are ranchers who got tired of paying for software that should be table stakes. If you outgrow the free tier on advanced features someday, the core grazing tools stay free.

The map and list views work in a mobile browser. Draw and edit pastures on a tablet when you have time at the desk; log herd moves from your phone at the gate. If the map tiles fail to load, the list view still works so you are not stuck staring at a blank screen in a dead zone.