Run your own cattle station
Muster the mob with a buggy and a drone, scan ear tags and weigh your cattle in the yards, then trade at the saleyards. A free game for young farmers, built around the technology real farms use every day.
Free to play in your browser. Nothing to download and nothing to buy. Best with a keyboard, and it plays on tablets and phones too.
Three jobs on the station
Every round takes you from the paddock, to the yards, to the market.
Muster the mob
Get behind your cattle in the side-by-side and send up the drone to cover the far side. Go gently: a calm mob earns more points.
Work the crush
Scan each ear tag with the reader, weigh her on the scales, then vaccinate, drench and pour-on. The app records every animal as you go.
Trade your cattle
Watch the prices, buy pens at the saleyards and bid in the online auction. Weighed and treated cattle grow faster and sell for more.
The technology real farmers use
The tools in the game are working on farms today.
Mustering drone
A drone reaches the far side of the paddock quickly and moves cattle quietly from the air.
Electronic ear tag
Every animal wears a tag with its own number, called an EID. A reader scans it, so you always know who is who.
Digital scales
Scales under the crush weigh each animal. Regular weights show how well she is growing.
Farm app
The tag number, weight and treatments go into the app, so the whole herd's records fit in your pocket.
The reader, scales and app in the game work like the real AgriEID Digital Farm System.See the Digital Farm System
How to play
Bring the mob in, work them through the crush, get paid, then trade your way to the biggest station in the district. The How to play button inside the game has every key and the newest tricks.
On a computer
- W A S D or the arrow keys Drive, or fly the drone
- Tab or F Swap between the buggy and the drone
- Space Brake. With the drone: up
- Shift Turbo. With the drone: down
- B Swap the side-by-side for the motorbike
- H horn, R call the drone back, Esc pause
On a tablet or phone
- Turn it on its side: the game plays wide.
- Steer with the joystick on the screen.
- Pinch with two fingers to zoom.
- The buttons work the brake, the horn and the drone.
- In the crush, tap and drag on the picture.
- Tap Close at any time to come back to this page.
1Cattle walk away from pressure. Get behind the mob and push them to the yards: the gold gate on the map.
2Charge in too fast or too close and they spook. Slow and steady scores more.
3In the crush, let the scales settle before you record the weight.
For parents and teachers
What children pick up
- Why moving cattle calmly works better than rushing them
- How electronic tags, scales and records keep track of every animal
- Working out a dose from a weight: 1 mL for every 20 kg
- Buying, selling and looking after money
Good to know
- The game asks for a name, which other players see on the leaderboard. A first name or a nickname is plenty.
- Players can see each other's buggies and bid against each other at the auction. There is no chat.
- The money in the game is pretend. There is nothing to buy and there are no adverts.
- The game keeps your place in the browser on the device being used. Some browsers clear it when they are closed.