A purpose-built enterprise solution for compliance gave auditors, feed yard workers, and operations managers what they needed to grow a USDA-certified beef quality program at scale, on one connected system.
Progressive Beef runs one of the most recognized USDA-certified beef quality programs in the country, and it had outgrown the paper-based workflows holding it back. A custom enterprise compliance platform was built, covering mobile auditing, task management, and centralized oversight, enabling growth from 15 to 80+ certified feed yards without growing the audit team.
Progressive Beef is a USDA-certified beef quality management program focused on animal welfare, food safety, and sustainability across participating feed yards in the United States. The program combines internal and third-party audits with documented standards and verification processes to ensure cattle are raised to defined quality benchmarks. Industry partners include Costco, Wendy's, and Tyson Foods. Progressive Beef has certified nearly 6 million cattle through the program.
Industry
Beef Cattle, USDA-Certified Quality Management
Geography Served
United States
Technology
Custom enterprise platform built on Cattlytics capabilities
Feed yard growth, from 15 certified feed yards at launch to 80+ today
Increase in auditor capacity, scaling from 8 to 20 feed yards per auditor
Reduction in daily record-keeping time for feed yard workers
Reduction in centralized management time, freeing the ops team for curriculum
Progressive Beef had built one of the most respected beef quality programs in the country. USDA-certified, backed by major industry partners, and grounded in rigorous auditing standards, the program had earned real credibility. But the infrastructure running it could not keep pace with its growth. Auditors were spread across too many sites. Feed yard workers ran without digital records. Operations managers had no shared visibility. The program was strong. The systems supporting it were not.
Feed yard workers logged daily compliance tasks on paper. No digital trail meant each site ran without standardized records.
Operations managers had no real-time view of task completion across feed yards. Gaps surfaced only after problems had already occurred.
Auditors calculated scores by hand in spreadsheets. Errors and inconsistent outputs undermined confidence in the program's audit credibility.
Non-Conformance items moved through email chains with no central tracking. Clearance was slow and compliance history sat scattered across files.
The implementation began with discovery, not configuration. Before a single workflow was set up, the team mapped how three distinct user groups, including auditors, feed yard workers, and operations managers, each interacted with compliance data differently. Their workflows, field conditions, and data access needs varied significantly. That mapping determined how the enterprise-level capabilities would be structured and configured across each layer of the program.
Conducted structured discovery with auditors, feed yard workers, and operations managers to map workflows, data access needs, and field conditions before configuration began.
Configured the audit module with role-specific checklists, automated scoring rules, and offline capability matched to Progressive Beef's certification standards and field environments.
Set up the task management layer for feed yard workers, including digital assignment flows, missed-task alerts, and offline sync for low-connectivity site environments.
Configured the Non-Conformance resolution dashboard and digital records repository to centralize compliance history, track corrective actions, and replace email-based tracking workflows.
Deployed across all three user groups with role-specific onboarding. Collected field feedback during rollout and refined configuration before moving to full production use.
A custom enterprise compliance platform was built for Progressive Beef, leveraging our capabilities for feedlot operations to address every layer of a multi-site program. The solution was designed around how each user group actually works, not applied from a standard template. It covers custom audit management, task automation, NC resolution, records management, and multi-site oversight in one purpose-built system.
The audit module guides auditors through digital checklists with automated scoring, producing consistent compliance records across every participating feed yard.
Feed yard tasks are assigned through the platform. Automatic missed-task alerts keep compliance activity on track without supervisor intervention.
Non-Conformance items are tracked in one dashboard from identification to clearance, replacing email chains with a shared real-time resolution view.
Workers record compliance tasks without internet access. All records sync automatically when connectivity returns, built for low-bandwidth field conditions.
Operations managers view task status, audit progress, and site-level compliance activity across every participating feed yard from one central screen.
Every audit, task log, and corrective action is stored and searchable by date, worker, or feed yard, retrievable on demand.
Each role has a purpose-configured view. Auditors, supervisors, field workers, and operations managers see only what their role requires.
Fingerprint and facial recognition give field workers instant, secure access without passwords or sign-in steps, designed for fast-paced feedlot environments.
"What stood out from the beginning was how much the team actually listened. They never pushed solutions we didn't need or added complexity for its own sake. They took the time to understand how our program works, what our auditors deal with in the field, and what we needed our operations team to be able to see. That approach is exactly why the work landed the way it did. This is one of the best partnerships we have had."
The impact of Cattlytics Enterprise reached every layer of the Progressive Beef program. Auditors moved through more feed yards with less friction. Field workers logged tasks on mobile instead of paper. Operations teams managed Non-Conformance resolution in real time from one screen. The figures below reflect what changed once the platform was fully adopted across the program.
Progressive Beef scaled from 15 to 80+ certified feed yards on a custom enterprise compliance platform. See what a purpose-built solution can do for your feedlot program.