Working-ranch program
300-Pair Cow/Calf Operating Context
See the questions being pressure-tested around coverage, alert usefulness, location workflow and gateway placement in a real cow/calf setting.
See the validation program →Field validation
Show the Conditions, Not Just the Claim
Wandering Shepherd is building its evidence base on working ranches. We publish what a deployment was designed to test, the ranch conditions that matter and measured outcomes only when the data is ready.
Evidence standard
Results need context.
When performance results are published, we include the configuration, dates, sample size, definitions and known limitations needed to interpret them.
What we intend to show with every published field result
Ranch conditions
Operation type, terrain, acreage, season and any important coverage constraints.
System configuration
Number of monitored animals, gateway count, gateway placement and alert settings.
Measured outcome
Clearly defined metrics, sample size, study period and limitations—not a marketing percentage without context.
Why we are doing it this way
Livestock technology operates in variable terrain and weather. A result from one ranch should not be presented as a universal guarantee. Our goal is to give producers enough detail to judge whether a result is relevant to their own operation.
Publication process
How a field result becomes a public claim.
We want producers to be able to separate a test objective from a completed result.
- 01Define the question
State what the deployment is intended to test and what metric would answer it.
- 02Document the configuration
Record animal count, gateway layout, terrain, season, settings and important constraints.
- 03Complete the measurement period
Do not convert partial observations into a finished performance percentage.
- 04Review the dataset
Check sample size, missing periods, definitions and obvious data-quality issues.
- 05State limitations
Publish the conditions that affect how another ranch should interpret the result.
- 06Publish the measured outcome
Only then add the result to the public evidence page.
Current public evidence status
This page describes the validation program. It does not present an unfinished field percentage as a completed result.
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