Ever.Ag is moving its AI assistant Everett beyond dairy production into livestock and animal protein management to help large-scale producers make informed decisions, as the commodity intelligence company gears up to launch the tool to its agribusiness users this summer.
Integrated into producers’ normal workflows, Everett is built on top of a variety of foundational AI models and Ever.Ag’s decades of insights into the dairy, livestock, and agribusiness markets, Scott Sexton, CEO at Ever.Ag, and Simon Drake, chief product officer at Ever.Ag, told AgNavigator.
Initially, Everett launched for its dairy customers in April this year and is now available for the livestock and animal industry with the following features ...
- Feed Allocation System: The Feed Allocation System provides automated feed planning, mortality alerts, and sell sequence optimization, the company shared. Hog farmers could use this feature to “make sure the right feed is in the right place at the right time, so the hogs can grow at the right pace,” Drake said.
- Feedlot IQ: Everett monitors active pens and determines the best time to ship livestock by analyzing weight trajectory, board futures, the difference between cash and futures prices (basis), grid premiums, freight, and packer commitments, Ever.Ag stated.
- S&OP for Animal Protein: The AI tracks in real-time key performance indicators and market insights – the estimated value of a cutout, live-cattle futures, and more – and compares them to a customer purchase history and provides a scored pricing recommendation. This allows representatives to quote prices based on up-to-date market conditions.
Everett is available on a free trial basis to customers, Drake noted. Ever.Ag demonstrated Everett’s expanded capabilities at the World Pork Expo in Des Moines, Iowa, June 3-4.
“Agentic AI is changing the paradigm a little bit for how software is used. Typically, users need to go into the software and then look through reports to find what’s interesting to them. Now, we have an agent that’s doing that, and then surfacing that relevant information back to the user,” Drake elaborated.
‘We were very early to the machine learning, data science, and AI game’
Over the years, Ever.Ag developed its tech stack by building technology tools in-house and augmenting those capabilities through acquisitions. In 2024, the company acquired nitrogen recommendation tool Adapt-N from Yara North America and food chain software supplier Integrated Control & Information Systems.
The year prior, Ever.Ag purchased Austin Data Labs – the company Drake co-founded – and integrated the lab’s AI and data science expertise into the Ever.Ag platform, before the current wave of AI excitement, Sexton explained.
“We were very early to the machine learning, data science, and AI game with Simon and his team joining the family. We leaned in heavily early, and I think it’s put us in a position right now to build on — candidly — where we think we have a very strong right to help our customers, which is in those day-to-day commodity flows and the systems that they use,” Sexton elaborated.
Looking to future of AI, Ever.Ag continues to develop AI capabilities and has not ruled out further acquisitions that make sense for its business, Sexton said.
“If there are capabilities that accelerate our potential in the space, we’ll either deploy those with our AI horsepower we have in house. Or if there would be a reason to pursue an acquisition, certainly,” Sexton explained. “You’ve probably seen in our DNA that we have been acquisitive only when it makes sense for the business.”
