Built on a working farm in western Kentucky
Your seed rep works for the seed company.
We work for you.
AcreCast keeps your fields, your records and your numbers straight — and it’s the only outfit in your operation that doesn’t get paid more when you buy more. One subscription. That’s the entire business.
Free until your season is in — we don’t start the clock until you’re actually using it. No card to sign up.
- Built by
- A row-crop farmer, from the cab
- Paid by
- You. Nobody else.
- Your records
- Export whole, any day
Why we exist
Nobody else in this business makes money when you spend less.
Your seed rep, your chemical rep, the co-op agronomist — good people, most of them. Every one of them is paid on what you buy. That isn’t a conspiracy, that’s just how their job works.
There’s supposed to be somebody on the other side of that conversation: an independent crop consultant, working for you and paid by you. Most farms never hire one. AcreCast is the closest thing we knew how to build, for about what two bags of seed cost.
- We don’t sell seed, chemical, fertilizer or iron, and we take no cut of any of it.
- When the numbers say your rate is above the economic optimum, the app says so — with the money and the evidence behind it, and a test strip to settle it in the field.
- Every number is labeled with where it came from: measured on your farm, derived, or assumed. Where we don’t know, it says we don’t know.
What it actually does
Five things it does that are worth the money.
Not a feature list. These are the ones farmers keep coming back to.
Drop the card in. Your years file themselves.
Pull the card out of the monitor, drop it in, and your fields come out drawn from where the machine actually drove — not traced off a photo, not typed in from the FSA sheet.
A seeding rate that knows where your pivot ends.
Draw the pivot once. AcreCast pulls your soil survey straight from USDA, cuts it at the pivot’s actual edge, and rates the watered ground and the dry corners separately — because they’re separate ground.
Did the water pay?
Irrigated bushels next to dryland bushels, same crop, same season, with the field’s acres split at the pivot line when you kept the two yields apart.
Works when the bars don’t.
Open it in the yard, drive into the hole in the coverage, and keep going. Sprays, fuel, hours, grain tickets, irrigation runs, field notes — they stack up on the phone and send themselves the minute you’re back on the road.
Your records leave whole. Any day.
One button. No phone call, no fee, no account manager to go through, no export tier.
The modern alternative
Everything the old farm software got wrong.
If you’ve used one of these programs you know the list. Here’s ours, and what we did instead.
Your data held hostage
Cancel, and your years of records stay on their server. Getting them out costs extra — if it’s possible at all.
One button gets you every record as spreadsheets, plus a map file of your boundaries — and a list of exactly what is in the download and what isn’t.
Charged by the head
Every hired hand, agronomist and landlord login is another line on the invoice.
Seats are free. We charge for acres, not people. Put the whole crew on it and the price doesn’t move.
A disc in the office computer
Installed on one machine in the office, updated whenever they get around to it.
Runs in whatever browser you already have, on the shop computer or the phone in your pocket. Nothing to install, nothing to update.
Only speaks one color of paint
Built around one equipment brand — run anything else and your machine data has nowhere to go.
Reads Case IH and New Holland cards straight off the monitor, and boundary files from anybody — shapefile, KML, KMZ, GeoJSON.
“Call for pricing”
The price depends on who’s asking, and finding out means a sales call.
The price is on the pricing page, in dollars, and you can read the whole thing in ten seconds.
Nothing works past the mailbox
No signal, no record — it won’t even open without internet.
Log it in the dead zone. It waits on the phone and sends itself when you’re back on the road.
Pricing, in ten seconds
Two tiers. Flat annual price. Seats are free.
Basic — $199/year
Answers what happened. Fields, boundaries, plantings, spray and fuel records, insurance dates, equipment, machine-card import, and your data out whenever you want it.
Up to 2,000 acres.
Professional — $599/year
Answers what it cost and what it made. Everything in Basic plus budgets, cost per acre, breakeven, grain tickets to bushels, custom work, prescriptions and the did-it-pay reports.
Up to 5,000 acres.
Launch pricing while we’re getting the first farms on. Free until your season is in.
What it doesn’t do yet
Software that only tells you what it’s good at isn’t worth trusting with your spray records. So, plainly:
- ISOXML and yield-file import is brand new — validated against real exports, but if a file of yours reads wrong, send it to us and it becomes a permanent test.
- We won’t model a fertilizer or chemical rate for you — no grid samples, no validated nitrogen response function, no invented number. You can build one from your agronomist’s rates: flat, on your seed prescription’s zones, or on the soil zones, all split at the pivot’s edge.
- The soil-driven seeding model is corn and beans. Wheat runs off the drilling date and canola is a flat rate with a drainage flag — that is the whole model for those two, on purpose.
- Pre-harvest intervals warn you — on the field and on the haul ticket — but they don’t push a notification the way re-entry intervals do.
Try it on this season.
The trial runs a season, not a fortnight — because a fortnight in January proves nothing about farm software. The clock starts the first time you actually use it, and it won’t run out between planting and harvest.
A real person answers that address. There’s no chatbot and no call center.