Trough is the AI agent that monitors prices, calculates rations, matches suppliers, and places orders. It works while you sleep, so your herd never misses a meal and your margins never miss a beat.
Corn, soybean meal, alfalfa hay — market moves delivered to your inbox before the week starts.
Enter your herd size and see your optimized ration cost vs. the market average — instantly.
Tell Trough about your animals — species, count, production targets, and any dietary requirements. Takes five minutes. Works for cattle, swine, poultry, and mixed operations.
Trough runs least-cost ration calculations across available ingredients, adjusting daily for market prices. Your herd gets nutritionally complete feed at the lowest possible cost.
Trough monitors supplier pricing in real time, places orders at the right moment, and continuously optimizes your procurement. Most farms see 12–20% feed cost reductions in the first 90 days.
Monitors commodity markets and supplier catalogs around the clock. Spots deals, flags anomalies, and tracks trends so you buy at the right time.
Calculates least-cost rations based on herd size, production targets, and what's actually available. Adjusts daily, not monthly.
Connects your farm with the right suppliers at the right price. Handles quotes, comparisons, and negotiations autonomously.
Places orders, tracks deliveries, manages inventory thresholds. You set the rules once. Trough handles the rest.
Other software gives you spreadsheets. Trough gives you outcomes.
Trough doesn't wait for you to log in. It continuously monitors your herd's needs, adjusts rations, and optimizes procurement — 24 hours a day, without manual input. Set your parameters once and let it run.
Commodity markets move fast. Trough tracks corn, soy, alfalfa, and dozens of other ingredients in real time — so you lock in deals before prices spike and never overpay because you didn't check today.
Our formulation engine calculates nutritionally complete rations at the absolute minimum cost — recalculating daily as ingredient prices shift. It's what a PhD nutritionist and a commodity trader would do, automated.
Trough is building the autonomous infrastructure that modern livestock operations deserve. Feed is just the beginning.
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