For anyone who has spent time in a barn, a feedlot, or a processing plant, the truth is plain enough: the decisions that make or break an operation rarely wait for a convenient moment. They come fast, they come often, and they come loaded with consequences. Now, an Iowa-rooted technology company says it has built a tool designed to help livestock and animal protein producers meet those moments head on.
Ever.Ag announced this week that it has expanded Everett, its Ag Decision Engine, to livestock and animal protein operations. The news, shared at the World Pork Expo at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines, marks the second wave of the company’s agentic AI rollout, which began with dairy back in April. For producers and processors already using Ever.Ag products, Everett is now available within the Feed Allocation System, S&OP for Animal Protein, and Feedlot IQ.
What sets Everett apart, according to the company, is that it does not behave like a generic chatbot. Instead, it connects the data already flowing through an operation and turns that information into recommendations and actions, weaving itself into the software that producers and processors rely on every day. The idea is to keep teams from bouncing between systems and instead bring the right insight to the right place at the right time.
That distinction matters to Ever.Ag CEO Scott Sexton. “What we launched in April was a promise to this industry that Ever.Ag would bring agentic AI to every domain we serve,” Sexton said. “Livestock and animal protein operations are complex, high-stakes environments where the right decision at the right time matters enormously. Ever.Ag has built and brought together the expertise to understand exactly how they work, and Everett puts that expertise to work. That’s what makes this different from a generic AI tool.”
Anyone who has raised animals knows why that complexity is no exaggeration. Livestock operations live at the crossroads of biological variability, market volatility, and the daily grind of keeping everything running smoothly. The margin for error is thin, and a missed signal can quietly chip away at profitability. Ever.Ag says Everett is designed to watch for the things that matter, recommend actions with full context, and let producers act without leaving the tools they already use.
The company offered a few practical examples of how that plays out. Within the Feed Allocation System, Everett brings automated feed planning, proactive gap detection, group performance benchmarking, mortality alerting, and sell sequence optimization. In S&OP for Animal Protein, it keeps an eye on market signals and operational benchmarks, delivering confidence-scored pricing recommendations, executive summaries, and variance attribution across multi-species processing environments.
For cattle producers, Feedlot IQ may catch the most attention. Everett continuously monitors pen and lot performance, surfacing mass-treatment candidates before the pull rate makes the problem obvious. It delivers a ranked margin briefing each morning and keeps buying decisions anchored to today’s market with real-time inbound break-evens by class. In short, it aims to give producers a clearer picture of where their money is going before the day gets away from them.
Ever.Ag says this is far from the finish line. Agribusiness is next in the continuous rollout, with announcements planned for later this summer, and Everett for Livestock Procurement is in development with availability expected later this year. The company describes the platform as one that improves the more it is used.
“Every wave brings more customers into an operation that’s smarter and more capable of acting on what the data is telling them,” Sexton added. “And Everett keeps getting better. The more it’s used, the more value it delivers.”
At its heart, technology like this is only as good as the people and the purpose behind it. For the families who rise before dawn to care for their animals and steward their land, tools that lighten the load and sharpen decisions are worth a closer look, especially if they help keep an operation healthy enough to hand down to the next generation.
To learn more about Everett, visit www.ever.ag/everett or stop by booth V665 at the World Pork Expo at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines, Iowa.