# BarnBuddy Fact Sheet and Talking Points

## At a glance

- **Product:** BarnBuddy
- **Company:** Pocket Rocket Labs
- **Creator:** Glenn Mills
- **Local connection:** Three-time FFA president in Henry County, Kentucky
- **Platforms:** iPhone and Android
- **Website:** https://barnbuddy.info
- **Price:** Seven-day full-feature trial, then a one-time $19.99 lifetime unlock
- **Business model:** No Version 1 subscription and no advertising
- **Primary audience:** Mixed farms, livestock and horse owners, bee keepers, poultry keepers, specialty producers, and farm families
- **Privacy model:** Version 1 records stay locally on the user's device; no separate BarnBuddy account is required

## What BarnBuddy organizes

- Individual animals, groups, flocks, and bee hives
- Identification, breed, sex, location, status, lineage, and photographs
- Treatments, vaccinations, product information, dose, route, lot, notes, and label photographs
- Meat, milk, egg, and honey withdrawal dates based on information entered by the user
- Health, breeding, birth, production, movement, farrier, dental, inspection, and mortality events
- Tasks with begin dates, due dates, completion status, and calendar display
- Medication, farm-supply, and equipment inventory with photos
- Veterinary PDFs attached to an animal or the farm
- Farm profile, optional location, and weather access

## Supported workflows

Goats, poultry, alpacas, bee hives, horses, beef cattle, dairy cattle, dogs, cats, and swine.

## Thirty-second description

BarnBuddy is a colorful farm-record app that helps farmers record the work they are already doing. A farmer can photograph an animal or treatment label, connect care to the right animal or group, calculate a follow-up or withdrawal date, and see upcoming work on a farm calendar. Version 1 is private and local-first, with a seven-day trial and a one-time $19.99 unlock.

## Founder biography

Glenn Mills is a Henry County entrepreneur, application creator, and three-time FFA president in Henry County. He created BarnBuddy to bring the practical recordkeeping and leadership values of agricultural education into a mobile tool that farms can use during everyday work.

## Approved founder quotes

> "FFA taught me that good records, practical problem-solving, and service to agriculture matter. BarnBuddy grew from those same values."

> "I wanted something professional enough to keep useful farm records but simple enough to use while the work is actually happening."

> "I am proud to introduce BarnBuddy in Henry County first and invite local farmers to help shape where it goes next."

## Likely interview questions

### Why did you create BarnBuddy?

Farm information is often spread between notebooks, photographs, calendars, text messages, and memory. BarnBuddy brings those pieces together without forcing a small farm into complicated office software.

### What makes it different?

It combines mixed-species animal records, treatment-label photographs, withdrawal dates, dated tasks, equipment, inventory, veterinary PDFs, and a visual farm screen in one friendly mobile app. Version 1 has no ads and no monthly subscription.

### What did FFA contribute?

FFA reinforced the importance of records, leadership, responsibility, and practical agricultural problem-solving. Those principles shaped BarnBuddy's purpose and design.

### Does it give veterinary advice?

No. BarnBuddy records information supplied by the farmer, veterinarian, or product label. It does not diagnose, prescribe, or replace professional instructions.

### Where is the data stored?

Version 1 is local-first. Farm records and photographs stay on the phone where they are entered, and the user should maintain a current device backup.

### What comes next?

Future plans include optional encrypted backup and BarnBuddy Vet, which is intended to let a farm invite a veterinarian and receive clearly attributed records. Those features are not part of Version 1.

## Claims that require care

- Do not call BarnBuddy "FFA approved" or "FFA endorsed."
- Do not call it a medical device or veterinary-record replacement.
- Do not promise that it satisfies every state, federal, breed-registry, food-safety, or insurance requirement.
- Do not say records are cloud-backed in Version 1.
- Do not announce veterinary synchronization as currently available.