Every farm runs two kinds of work at once.
The work the weather decides.
Hay cutting, sap runs, grazing moves, harvest. The window is narrow and missing it costs real money — a rained-on cutting, over-mature forage that sells for less.
The work that never stops.
Fix the fence, order feed, service the baler. Spread across people who need to know what to do and when.
Task apps can’t read a hayfield. Farm record-books don’t run a crew. Nothing holds both — so it all lives in your head. TopHand holds both.
How TopHand works
Conditions in. Your call. Crew moving.
It watches the conditions.
Live weather, crop maturity, and moisture reconciled per field. When a window opens, you see it — with the reasoning, not a black box.
You make the call.
TopHand suggests; you confirm. Advisory, never automatic — the decision on your farm is always yours.
The crew gets moving.
One confirm spawns assigned tasks on a task list the whole team shares — phone-first, works in the barn, texts the people who don’t do email.
Grounded knowledge
A hand who’s done their homework.
Add a crop, an animal, or a machine and TopHand fills in the knowledge to manage, market, and sell it — planting windows for your zone, husbandry norms for your breed, maintenance schedules for your baler. Grounded in USDA and extension sources, cited, and always yours to edit.
TopHand’s guidance is advisory and editable.
It warns; it never blocks.
Cut at boot-to-early-head for your zone. Optimal baling moisture flagged before you drive out.
source · USDA + MSU Extension
Kidding intervals, hoof-trim cadence, and vaccination windows for the breed you actually keep.
source · extension husbandry
Belt and bearing service by hours; a pre-season checklist before the first cutting.
source · OEM schedule
Engines for your enterprises
Start with what you grow.
Each engine is an add-on, so you subscribe to what your farm actually does. More engines each season.
Hay engine
Cut-window reconciliation, moisture calls, and baling tasks — running now.
Grazing rotation
Paddock moves, rest-period tracking, and regrowth cues for managed grazing.
Maple sugaring
Sap-run forecasting on the freeze–thaw swing, and tap-to-boil timing.
Put a top hand on your crew.
Tell us about your farm and we’ll set you up. No credit card, no self-checkout maze — a real setup, done for you.
We’ll set up your farm and email
your invite — usually within a day.