We started Feeders to Field to fix the snags we hit building our own farm. Today the network helps you source feeders, find hay, and book custom farming work. More pieces on the way — see what's next below.
Start sourcing →The knowledge, materials, and people that make a small livestock operation viable live in twenty disconnected places — county extension PDFs, Facebook groups, feed-store phone calls, and word of mouth. We've lived it. We built Feeders to Field to pull it into one place.
Finding healthy feeder animals from a reputable breeder at the right age and weight is a cold-outreach slog. Auctions are high-risk for newcomers.
Most small producers don't own a livestock trailer. Custom haulers are informal, regional, and hard to find unless you already know someone.
Fence, water, gates, energizers, H-braces. Expensive decisions made by guessing — and expensive mistakes to fix after the post is in the ground.
A single fence build spans 30+ SKUs across four vendors. Pricing is opaque, availability is inconsistent, and nobody tells you what to skip.
Pasture mix, minerals, rotation timing, supplements. Extension materials exist — but they're scattered, dense, and never specific to your ground.
Most rookie operators leave thousands in legitimate Schedule F deductions on the table because they don't know what qualifies or how to document it.
Feeders to Field connects the pieces rookie ranchers have to stitch together themselves today. Each pillar is a tool you actually use — not a newsletter, not a forum, not a PDF.
Find feeder animals, hay, and custom farming work from operators near you. Filter by breed, county, and availability. Direct introductions — no commissions, no middlemen.
Start sourcing →An on-demand marketplace for livestock transportation. Verified haulers, escrow payments, photo-verified delivery, and insurance checks built in.
Input your parcel. Get a fence layout, water plan, and rotation recommendation with build videos linked to every step.
Auto-generated bill of materials with real SKUs, regional pricing, availability, and direct-order fulfillment through our supplier network.
Species- and region-specific pasture mix, mineral, and rotation recommendations — backed by land-grant research, translated for operators.
Receipt capture, Schedule F categorization, and a library of deductions most small producers miss. Hand a clean packet to your CPA.
Searchable playbooks for the exact scenario you're in — "First 90 days raising feeder lambs," "Winter feed plan for small hog operations," and more.
Tell us your acreage, species, and goal. We generate a first-pass plan for fence, water, and rotation.
Get the exact materials list, order it through our network, and follow the linked build videos step by step.
Book feeders from vetted breeders. Hire a verified hauler with escrow and photo-verified drop-off.
Follow your rotation, log receipts for tax, and talk to other operators doing exactly what you're doing.
Irrigated pasture. Woven sheep wire perimeter on T-posts with drill-pipe H-braces. Three interior polybraid lines. Moveable paddocks. The exact kind of build Feeders to Field is designed to help the next rookie ship in half the time.
Feeders to Field is operator-built. Every tool on the platform exists because the founder needed it on his own three-acre lamb operation and couldn't find it. We're starting with the gap that hit hardest — sourcing — and rolling out hauling, planning, materials, feed, and the rest of the platform pillar by pillar.
Sourcing is the first pillar live. The other six — hauling, planning, materials, grazing, books, playbooks — we're still building. Drop your email and we'll let you know when each one is ready.