LedgerBarn

Farm management and accounting software — with payroll built in.

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.

Cent-verified 2026 taxesYour data stays yoursNo card to start
Everything, in one login

The books and the barn, finally together.

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.

Payroll & books

Payroll that’s right to the cent

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.

Real bookkeeping

Chart of accounts, register, reconcile, categories, vendors, P&L, balance sheet, Schedule-F mapping, 1099 thresholds.

Invoicing & tax forms

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.

Seasonal & H-2A labor, handled

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.

Farm management

Buy and sell cattle? Covered.

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.

Your herd & feed

Animal records with event history, pastures, vet contacts, and a feed ledger that tracks days-of-feed-left and low stock.

Fields, soil & equipment

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.

Decisions, not just data

A cost-to-raise calculator, a sell-now-vs-feed-longer model, a full scenario planner, and live USDA market reports for your state.

Built for the field

Installs like an app

A progressive web app in your farm’s own colors — add it to your phone’s home screen, works offline for the shell.

One-tap in-pasture entry

Log a feed-out, an animal weight, a sighting, or a harvest right where you are — big buttons, saves without leaving the sheet.

Your brand, your data

Your name, logo, and colors throughout — and your books live in an isolated database that’s yours to export or back up.

A real, working farm

See the whole operation in one place.

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 on a phone

In your pocket, out in the pasture.

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.

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Why LedgerBarn

Not another silo. Not another spreadsheet.

Farms 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.

The office and the field, in one place

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.

Payroll that speaks agriculture

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.

Built for every kind of farm

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.

It’s yours, down to the name

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.”

Answers, not just records

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.

One place, one price, nothing to wire

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.

Simple pricing

Pick a plan. 14 days free, no card.

Flat monthly price per farm. Cancel anytime. Your first 14 days are on us — no credit card required to start.

Farm Records
$12/mo
Run your whole farm — livestock, fields, equipment & more.
  • Livestock records + feed inventory & burn rate
  • Fields, soil tests & amendment log
  • Equipment & maintenance tracking
  • Farm journal + phenology
  • Stocker lots — buy/sell tracking, cost of gain & closeouts
  • Cattle economics + scenario planner
  • Live weather, soil & USDA market prices
  • Hunt & fish records with a property map
  • Installable mobile app + in-pasture quick entry
Most popular
Farm + Books & Payroll
$49/mo
Everything in Farm Records, plus real payroll and books.
  • Everything in Farm Records
  • Cent-verified 2026 federal + state payroll taxes
  • Unlimited pay runs, paystubs & direct-deposit (ACH) files
  • Bookkeeping: accounts, reconcile, P&L, balance sheet
  • Lot purchases & sales post straight to your books + Schedule F
  • Invoicing, customer statements & A/R
  • W-2 / 1099 / 941 / 943 / 940 worksheets + e-file
  • Employee self-service portal
  • Flat price — every employee included, no per-head fees, ever
  • Covers crews up to 25; larger operation? Let’s talk
Add-ons & Enterprise
Let's talk
Sensors, AI, and multi-farm operations.
Contact sales
  • On-farm sensors — weather station, EID + scale, water level
  • AI farming advisor
  • Multiple farms / locations
  • Custom onboarding & data migration
  • Priority support

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.

Up and running fast

From sign-up to your own branded site in minutes.

Pick a plan

Start your free trial with just a farm name and email — no card.

We set up your site

Your own address, your logo and colors, your isolated books — ready in minutes.

Add your farm & staff

Enter your herd, fields, and employees — or import them — and you’re running.

Good to know

Questions, answered.

What’s the Blue Ridge Weekend?

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.

Is my data safe?

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.

Do you file and pay my taxes?

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.

What happens after the trial?

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.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes — self-serve, no contract. Cancel from your billing portal and you won’t be charged again.

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How LedgerBarn compares

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.

SoftwarePricePayrollBookkeepingLivestockStocker lots & closeoutsFields & cropsFlat price, no per-head feesYour 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/mobasic
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.

Payroll, books, livestock, fields & equipment — one flat price. See LedgerBarn for yourself

Run the whole place from one login.

Start free today. Bring your books, your herd, and your staff into one branded home.

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