Every farm has the same question at some point in the winter. Milk dipped, or the steers slowed down, and you want to know if the ration is the reason. LEO Smart Feed is the AI section inside the LEO My Farm website that helps you work through that question with your own farm’s records in front of it.
The important part is control. Smart Feed writes a suggestion. Nothing changes on the mixer until a manager approves it.
Where Smart Feed lives
Smart Feed is part of signed-in LEO My Farm, the farm website at leo-ag.com/myfarm. It is not a separate app and it is not a screen you have to hunt for on the phone. Owners and managers switch it on in My Farm Settings, the same place they switch other modules on or off.
Because it sits inside My Farm, it sits next to everything else the farm already keeps there:
- Rations, with one row per ingredient and a version history.
- Pens, with head count, animal type, and schedules.
- Load records, with target and actual weight for every ingredient.
- Grades, reports, and costs.
What you can ask
A manager, owner, or the farm’s nutritionist can type a question in plain words. Some examples:
- Why did milk drop on the fresh pen this week?
- Should the heifer ration change now that we switched silage?
- What would it look like to cut the concentrate in the finishing pen?
Smart Feed answers with a written suggestion. It can draw on the farm’s rations and load records, so the answer is about your farm, not a textbook farm.
Suggestions stay unapplied until a manager approves
This is the line that keeps the farm in charge. Every Smart Feed answer is marked as not applied. To use it, a manager puts the change into a new ration version and approves it with a start date. Only then does the phone app receive it.
That means:
- Smart Feed suggests.
- The manager reviews the suggestion, with the nutritionist if needed.
- The manager saves a new ration version.
- The manager approves it and picks the date it starts.
- The operator loads the approved ration on the scale.
Nobody wakes up to a ration that changed overnight because a computer said so.
Why the approval step matters
Ration changes are expensive when they go wrong. A suggestion that looks good on paper might not suit your forage, your bunk, or your cows. Keeping the approval in the manager’s hands means every change has a person behind it and a date on it.
It also keeps the record clean. When you look back at a month of loads, you can see which ration version was running, when it started, and who approved it.
Smart Feed is not the in-app AI Nutritionist
LEO has two AI tools and they do different jobs.
- LEO AI Nutritionist is a chat inside the LEO Agriculture app on iPhone and Android. Anyone can use it to build a suggested TMR ration, without a farm account.
- LEO Smart Feed is inside LEO My Farm. It works for a signed-in farm, with that farm’s rations and records, and its suggestions go through manager approval.
If you are a farm with LEO My Farm, Smart Feed is the one tied to your records. If you just want to sketch a ration on your phone, the AI Nutritionist chat is the quick tool.
How Smart Feed fits the rest of the system
Smart Feed is one piece of a loop.
- The manager approves a ration version on My Farm.
- The operator loads it on the phone with LEO Scale, ingredient by ingredient.
- The server grades each load from target and actual weights.
- The office reviews loads, grades, and costs on My Farm.
- Smart Feed uses those records when the manager asks about the next change.
The better the loading record, the better the question you can ask.
Good habits when using AI on a ration
AI is a tool, not a nutritionist. Use it well.
- Ask one clear question at a time.
- Check that your forage analysis and prices in My Farm are current.
- Review any suggestion with your nutritionist or vet before you approve it.
- Change one thing at a time so you can see what it did.
Suggestions are not guarantees. Animals, forages, and weather all play a part.
Getting started
Create a farm account on LEO My Farm, set up your rations and pens, and switch on Smart Feed in Settings. Your operators load approved rations with the LEO Agriculture app on iPhone or Android. Learn more about the machines behind it, like our twin auger vertical TMR mixers, at LEO Agriculture, or talk to your LEO dealer.
Questions? Message us on WhatsApp at +1 608-480-8512 or email info@leoagriculture.com.
