Every month
Management report
Cattle movements, inventory by category, expenses by line item, income, works completed and staff updates. With the supporting documents available for your accountant.
Cattle ranch management
We manage your ranch as if it were our own.
Full-service management: planning, herd, pastures, infrastructure, staff and the numbers. You remain the owner and receive the ranch in production, with monthly financial reporting and access to the information whenever you want.
01Management
Full-service ranch management
Six fronts managed together, because separately they do not work: a plan without staff is not executed, and a herd without infrastructure does not perform. All under one contract and one person accountable.
APlanning
Production planning and annual budget
Defining the establishment's direction —breeding, rearing, fattening or full cycle—, real carrying capacity per paddock in cow equivalents/ha, work calendar and annual budget of income and expenses. The plan is approved with the owner before it is executed and is reviewed each quarter against what was actually spent.
Deliverable: written production plan, annual budget and work calendar.
BHerd
Herd management
Breeding season and service, pregnancy check and diagnosis, calving, branding and weaning, recategorization, selection, culls and CUT cows. Animal health plan following SENACSA's official calendar, with records of vaccinations, deworming and treatments. Individual identification and continuous updating of the inventory record.
Deliverable: cattle inventory by category, reconciled with the movements of the period.
CPastures
Pastures and forage resources
Stocking adjustment per paddock, rotation with measured rest, weed and invasive control, staged renovation and seeding, forage reserves and mineral and protein supplementation according to the season. Monitoring the condition of the resource, not just the animal.
Deliverable: paddock map with assigned stocking and rest calendar.
DInfrastructure
Infrastructure and improvements
Perimeter and subdivision fencing, corrals, chute, cattle race and scale, watering points, reservoirs, pumping and drinkers, internal roads, sheds and staff housing. Assessment of condition, a works plan prioritized by productive impact, and control of execution and spending.
Deliverable: infrastructure inventory with condition and a costed works plan.
EStaff
Human resources
Selection and hiring of field staff: ranch manager, foreman and hands. Proper employment records, social security contributions up to date, workplace safety and training in low-stress cattle handling. Effective supervision: staff report to a present management, not to instructions over the phone.
Deliverable: staff roster, documented labor compliance and performance evaluation.
FAdministration
Administration and management control
Purchasing and inputs with price comparison, stock control, the establishment's cash, tax documentation in order, movement permits and procedures with SENACSA, and marketing of the cattle by evaluating sales alternatives. Everything closes in a monthly report.
Deliverable: monthly report with the economic result, productive indicators and supporting documentation.
Managing is not visiting the ranch: it is answering for it every month.
02Reporting
What you receive, and when
The difference between a management firm and an expensive foreman is accountability. These are the deliverables committed by contract, with their frequency.
Every quarter
Production report
Indicators for the period: pregnancy and weaning rates over bred females, pregnancy-to-weaning loss, average daily gain in g/day per lot, stocking rate in cow equivalents/ha, mortality and kilos of beef produced per hectare, compared against the plan.
Every year
Year-end close and next plan
Economic result for the year, margin per hectare, valued inventory and a proposed plan and budget for the coming year.
Whenever you want
Access to the ranch and the data
Coordinated visits to the establishment and access to records without asking permission or waiting for the report. It is your ranch.
At the start
Initial condition report
A documented snapshot of the establishment upon taking over: cattle, pastures, infrastructure and staff. It serves to measure later what improved and what did not.
If something goes wrong
Immediate notice
Abnormal mortality, a disease outbreak, fire, theft or any relevant event is reported the same day, not in the end-of-month report.
03Control
How you know you are not being robbed
It is the question every owner asks who lives in Asunción and has the ranch four hundred kilometers away, and the one almost no one answers in writing. We answer it here, because trust without method lasts only until the first count that does not add up.
01Cattle
Reconciled cattle count
Inventory by category closed every month —breeding females, heifers, calves, steers, bulls— and reconciled with the formula that admits no argument: opening stock plus births and purchases, minus deaths, sales and transfers, equals closing stock. If it does not add up, it is investigated and reported in the same period. Full physical count every time the herd passes through the chute.
02Money
Spending limit and account in your name
You set the amount we can spend without consulting you. Below it, it is executed and reported with a receipt; above it, prior written authorization is requested. And most important of all: the money from cattle sales goes into an account of yours or of the establishment's company, never into an account of ours.
03Purchases
Comparative quotes
Relevant inputs are quoted with more than one supplier and the comparison is attached to the report. It is not distrust: it is the only way to prove that the price paid was the best available that month.
04Evidence
Dated photos of every round
Paddocks, watering points, corrals, infrastructure and cattle, with a date. A report can be written from a desk; a dated photo of the reservoir cannot.
05Paperwork
Cross-check with official documentation
Cattle movements are cross-checked against the movement permits and SENACSA records. It is an external control that does not depend on our word or our spreadsheet.
06Records
Initial and closing condition reports
When we take over we document what we receive: cattle, pastures, infrastructure and staff. When we finish, the same report is made. That way it is on record what came in and what is handed back, and it does not depend on anyone's memory or on the mood of the farewell.
07Audit
External audit whenever you want
You can send your accountant, your veterinarian or an auditor to review records, cattle and receipts, without notice and without explanation. There is nothing to prepare before they arrive.
All of this is in the contract, not on this page. A promise on a website binds no one; a clause does.
04Production
Breeding, rearing and fattening
The concrete management behind the plan, whether we manage your ranch or the cattle belong to a project of our own.
Breeding
Seasonal breeding
A defined breeding window to concentrate calving in the best pasture season, with checking of bulls and monitoring of the cows' body condition before servicing.
Breeding
Pregnancy check and culling
Pregnancy diagnosis to separate empty cows, organize calving and decide culls on productive criteria rather than by habit.
Rearing
Assisted weaning
Gradual separation with supplementation of the calf to cut the post-weaning slump and restore the mother's condition in time for the next service.
Fattening
Strip rotation
Short occupation and long rest. The pasture enters grazing with leaf and leaves with reserve to regrow, which is what sustains the following year's stocking.
Fattening
Strategic supplementation
Minerals year-round and protein or energy supplement when the forage drops in quality. Supplementation is used to sustain the curve, not to cover up stocking mistakes.
Exit
Finishing and marketing
Monitoring up to the weight and finish the buyer requires, choosing the time of sale according to the market and not according to cash urgency.
Staff report to a present management, not to instructions over the phone.
05Advisory
Animal production advisory
For the owner who manages their own ranch and needs an outside view on a specific problem, without handing over the management.
Diagnosis
Ranch audit
Assessment of cattle, pastures, infrastructure, staff and records, with a report of findings prioritized by impact on the result. It is the logical first step before deciding on any change.
Animal health
Review of the animal health plan
Audit of the calendar, of vaccine handling and of the protocols for incoming cattle, with corrections ordered by risk.
Pastures
Stocking, rotation and renovation
Calculation of real carrying capacity in cow equivalents/ha, paddock layout and strip design, rest calendar and a staged renovation plan adjusted to the forage species and the season.
Administration
Getting records in order
Implementation of individual identification, movement spreadsheet, weighings and costs, so the ranch can prove what it produces and how much it costs.
Presence
A ranch is managed by being there
A written plan does not move a single animal. That is why management rests on real presence: permanent staff at the establishment, periodic technical rounds by the person in charge and mandatory presence at the work that defines the year.
Breeding season, pregnancy check, branding, weaning, vaccinations and shipments are the moments where the year is won or lost. On those days someone of ours is at the chute, not on the phone.
06Fees
How the management is charged
We say it before the meeting so you do not waste time: there are three possible schemes and only one is agreed, in writing, before starting.
Scheme 1
Fixed monthly fee
An amount agreed according to area, number of cattle and complexity of the establishment. Predictable for the owner and suitable when the ranch is already running steadily.
Scheme 2
Percentage of production
A share of the kilos produced or of the year's result. It aligns our income with yours: if the ranch does not produce, we do not get paid the same.
Scheme 3
Mixed
A low fixed fee covering operations plus a variable for performance against the agreed indicators. It is the one we usually recommend for ranches in recovery.
The establishment's expenses —staff, inputs, animal health, fuel, works— are the owner's and are reported with receipts. The management fee is separate and is never deducted from the cash without authorization.
First step
Start with the ranch assessment.
We go, we survey and we hand you the report with what we found. Only after that do we talk about managing.