For swine producers & their veterinarians
Earmark makes the paperwork you’re already required to produce — VFDs, certificates, antibiotic-free and welfare attestations — tamper-evident and kept as you go. So the next time a packer, a program auditor, or a lawyer asks, the records are already there, and anyone can check they haven’t been changed.
Changes through the app are refused, and any other change — including ours — shows against an earlier copy of your records. Anyone you share them with can confirm nothing changed after export, without taking our word for it.
⋯ The problem
“Anyone could have edited this.” That’s the entire cost of discrediting most compliance records in agriculture today. Your VFDs are in one place, your claims in another, your welfare paperwork in a binder for the annual audit — and none of them talk to each other. The audit checks the record once a year. The risk lives in the 364 days it isn’t looking.
There’s a difference between having records and having evidence. A record is something you kept. Evidence is something that holds up when a counterparty doesn’t want it to. Earmark is built to give you the second one.
⋯ What it does
Most software issues the paperwork and stops. Auditors check it once a year. These three belong to the record itself.
Renewal emails, visit-note records, and stewardship summaries are drafted by AI, and for a new VFD it lays out the label-eligible options — then your veterinarian reviews and decides. The AI does the typing; the vet does the judgment — and every AI action in the app is on the audit trail too. Nothing becomes a black box.
Every entry is cryptographically chained to the one before it, and historical edits from the application are refused by the database itself — not just logged — while any other change breaks the chain or shows against an earlier copy. Your records export, and anyone you share them with can confirm for themselves that nothing has changed since the export. That’s the jump from “trust me” to “see for yourself.”
The moment an antibiotic treatment, a failed residue test, or a housing breach is recorded, the affected lot is flagged as no longer meeting its program, automatically — antibiotic-free and welfare alike. You find out while you can still act on it, not at the plant or in a clawback letter.
⋯ How it fits
Earmark prepares and chains the certificate, then helps your vet submit it through the state-approved platform. It records your lab’s residue result and chains it. It holds your welfare certification and watches the clock on it. What it keeps is the connective record — the tie between your movements, treatments, claims, and audits — so an audit has one place to look.
Rent the rails. Keep the record.
⋯ Why now
A major national grocer requires third-party welfare certification across its meat department — fresh, frozen, and prepackaged. No crates for pork. Delist or comply. Source ↗
Every former over-the-counter medically important antibiotic now needs veterinary oversight — a prescription, or a veterinary feed directive for feed-grade drugs. More compliance work, per animal, per year. Source ↗
After a USDA screen of cattle marketed “raised without antibiotics” found residues in roughly one in five animals sampled, the bar is moving from an annual affidavit to continuous, verified proof. Source ↗
Minnesota requires electronic CVIs for every import from July 1, 2026; Texas stopped accepting paper import CVIs in 2026 and accepts none from 2027. CAFO annual reports moved to electronic NPDES reporting (EPA deadline December 2025; some states have extensions). Paper is dying on a date; electronic records are the new floor. Sources: MN ↗ · TX ↗ · EPA ↗
Every one of these resolves to the same need: a continuous, verifiable, revocable record behind a claim. That’s the one thing Earmark was built to be.
⋯ Honest scope
Nothing below is aspirational marketing. Built capability is stated in the present tense; everything else is on the roadmap and says so. Earmark is pre-launch: what’s listed as built is built and tested, and the first pilot’s records open once our own security gates close. The app itself labels any integration that isn’t real yet.
⋯ Species
Swine was built first and built deep. Poultry is partly built. Cattle is designed. Every page below says exactly which one it is — because a species roadmap you can’t trust poisons everything else a vendor tells you.
The flagship: VFDs, claim tracking, welfare, CAFO/NMP, movement, biosecurity + US SHIP — one chained record.
Built · pre-launchNPIP backbone first — first build leg done, not released. NAE claim tracking on hold; HPAI paperwork designed.
Partly builtHerd program status — earned, evidenced, revocable — designed on the same proven record. Build begins after poultry ships a live record.
Designed⋯ The maker
Earmark is run the way a good audit is run, and it makes you one promise: changes through the app are refused, any other change shows against an earlier copy of your records, and anyone you share them with can check that nothing changed after export. The same standard applies to what we tell you — when something isn’t live yet, this site says so in plain words. Honesty isn’t a disclaimer here. It’s the product.