Backgrounding
Built for producers who value performance, our Growing Management and Growing Performance dashboards put you in control of animal growth and forward planning. By bringing together the data that matters most, they support better decisions across trading and backgrounding—helping you lift consistency, reduce guesswork, and get more value from every run.
These are practical tools for producers who are thinking ahead—about margins today and legacy tomorrow.
Analyse.
Weight gain & ADG
Property of Origin & Source PIC
Purchase & Sale Price
Link to feedlot performance & carcase data
Identify.
High & low performers
Forward cast animals to market month by month
Sire & Dam
Back Every Decision with Insight.
For backgrounding operations, Black Box Co offers two purpose-built dashboards designed to bring clarity and confidence to your decisions.
Management Dashboard – Tracks animals currently on the property. It’s built for day-to-day stock oversight, helping you monitor weight gain, manage mobs efficiently, and forecast future performance with ease.
Performance Dashboard – Focuses on animals that have exited the business. By linking feedlot and carcase feedback to on-farm performance, it helps you understand which cattle deliver real results across the supply chain—by breed, vendor, saleyard, or supplier.
Both dashboards allow detailed analysis and side-by-side comparison across key traits including Property of Origin, Source PIC, Breed, Sex, HGP status, Class, Sire & Dam, First Weight, Property, and Paddock—giving you the insights to improve not just a group of cattle, but the entire system behind them.
Built for producers who value precision, these tools help you back every decision with data—and build better outcomes for the long haul.
Replace your excel spreadsheets
Accurately forecast when cattle will be market ready by altering expected ADG month by month, create draft lists and book consignments well in advance.
