Run livestock, fields, and equipment; keep the books; and pay your crew — cent-verified payroll and real bookkeeping, branded as your own. Buy and sell cattle? Track every lot from sale barn to closeout. Built for farms and the small businesses that run them.
Most farms run payroll in one place, keep books in another, and track the herd on paper. LedgerBarn is all three — and on your phone in the pasture.
A 2026 federal + NC/VA engine, cent-verified against an independent payroll reference — W-4 steps, frequencies, SS cap, additional Medicare, pre-tax deductions, garnishments, ag-overtime.
Chart of accounts, register, reconcile, categories, vendors, P&L, balance sheet, Schedule-F mapping, 1099 thresholds.
Send invoices and statements; generate W-2 / 1099 / 941 / 943 / 940 and e-file — you remit your own deposits on the schedule we show you.
Full H-2A compliance most payroll skips: the three-fourths-guarantee ledger, AEWR wage-floor checks, and MSPA per-payday earnings statements — plus the family-employee exemption and the correct FICA/FUTA treatment for each worker.
Stocker and backgrounder lots the way the business runs: pay weights and pencil shrink, freight, running break-evens, cost of gain, LRP price coverage, partial sales, and a printable closeout report for every lot.
Animal records with event history, pastures, vet contacts, and a feed ledger that tracks days-of-feed-left and low stock.
A field log with crop, acreage, and amendment history for pasture, hay, row crops, or produce; area-modeled soil conditions (no sensor needed); and equipment service + cost-per-hour.
A cost-to-raise calculator, a sell-now-vs-feed-longer model, a full scenario planner, and live USDA market reports for your state.
A progressive web app in your farm’s own colors — add it to your phone’s home screen, works offline for the shell.
Log a feed-out, an animal weight, a sighting, or a harvest right where you are — big buttons, saves without leaving the sheet.
Your name, logo, and colors throughout — and your books live in an isolated database that’s yours to export or back up.
These are real screens from a live LedgerBarn — the books, the payroll, and the farm, all under one branded roof. Your instance looks exactly like this, in your colors.

LedgerBarn installs to your phone’s home screen as an app in your farm’s colors — no app store. Log a feed-out, an animal weight, a sighting, or a harvest from one big-button quick-entry sheet without hunting through menus. The shell works offline, so a dead zone at the back forty doesn’t stop you.
Start your 14-day free trialFarms end up with one app for the books, another for payroll, and a shoebox for everything in the field. Here’s what changes when it’s all one system built for agriculture.
Most farm software runs your herd and fields but can’t cut a paycheck; most books-and-payroll apps have never heard of a hay field. LedgerBarn is both — accounting, payroll, and the whole operation share one login and one branded home, so nothing has to be re-keyed between them.
Form 943, agricultural overtime, and the family-employee exemption are built in — and so is the H-2A migrant-worker compliance most payroll simply can’t do: the three-fourths-guarantee ledger, the AEWR wage-floor check, and the MSPA per-payday earnings statement. Bring on seasonal or visa labor and the hard paperwork is already handled.
Cattle, row crops, hay, produce, timber — the books, payroll, equipment log, and field-and-soil records fit any operation. Raise livestock and you also get herd, feed, and cattle-economics tools. Nobody’s shoehorned in, and no one pays for a module they’ll never open.
The whole app wears your farm’s name, logo, and colors — not ours. Your books live in their own isolated database with their own encryption key, and they’re yours to export or back up anytime. No shared pool, no “export blocked until you upgrade.”
Beyond tracking what happened, LedgerBarn helps you decide what’s next: cost-to-raise and sell-now-vs-feed-longer math, side-by-side strategy planning, live market prices, feed that tells you days-of-supply-left, and a plain-English read on your books and the weather every morning.
A flat monthly price per farm — no per-seat math to dread, no bolt-ons you didn’t ask for. It installs to your phone like an app, keeps working when the signal doesn’t, and there’s nothing to integrate: it’s one system from day one.
Flat monthly price per farm. Cancel anytime. Your first 14 days are on us — no credit card required to start.
Prices in USD, billed monthly. You remit your own tax deposits — we show you exactly when and how much. Add-ons & sensors are billed separately.
Start your free trial with just a farm name and email — no card.
Your own address, your logo and colors, your isolated books — ready in minutes.
Enter your herd, fields, and employees — or import them — and you’re running.
Every year we draw one LedgerBarn farm to win a hunt-or-fish weekend on our own farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia — deer, turkey, bear, small game, or trout, your pick. Free to enter from the Hunt & Fish tab inside your LedgerBarn; no purchase beyond being part of the family.
Every farm gets its own isolated database and its own encryption key — SSNs and bank details are encrypted at rest (AES-256-GCM). Your data is yours to export or back up anytime.
LedgerBarn computes everything to the cent, generates the forms, e-files W-2/1099, and shows you exactly when and how much to deposit — you remit your own tax payments (EFTPS / state). Full-service pay-and-file is on the roadmap.
You get 14 days free with no card required. Add a card before it ends to keep going; if you don't, the farm simply pauses — your data waits for you.
Yes — self-serve, no contract. Cancel from your billing portal and you won’t be charged again.
Built for cattle ranchers and beefalo farms, with real payroll and bookkeeping most livestock-only tools don’t touch — all for one flat price, no per-head or per-employee fees. Here’s the whole field, side by side.
| Software | Price | Payroll | Bookkeeping | Livestock | Stocker lots & closeouts | Fields & crops | Flat price, no per-head fees | Your own brand |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LedgerBarn that’s usPayroll, books & full farm records in one — in your own name and colors. | $12–$49/mo | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| AmbrookModern farm bookkeeping — the books only; no payroll or herd records. | $29–$49/mo per entity | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| FarmbriteLivestock + crops + basic accounting, split across four tiers. | $29–$109/mo | ✗ | basic | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| CattleMaxFocused cattle & ranch record-keeping — records only. | $12–$20/mo | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| AgriWebbLivestock & grazing platform; price scales with your herd size. | $34–$61/mo + | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | grazing add-on | ✗ | ✗ |
| HerdwatchHerd-health & compliance app, strongest in the UK/Ireland. | Contact (no US price) | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | — | ✗ |
Competitor prices & features from each vendor’s own pricing page, checked Jul 2026 — they change, so confirm before you decide. “Basic” = a lighter version of the feature.
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