If You Run a Ranch, Read This.
Managing one feeder is simple. Managing a dozen starts eating time. Managing hundreds should not mean programming timers one by one across miles of property.
WildCore Ranch Mode™ lets you manage your feeders as one connected system — one schedule, one map, one report. Built for ranches, leases, and large properties where feeder control needs to scale with the land.
Walk Into the Lodge and See the Whole Ranch.
The WildCore® Ranch Monitoring System puts Ranch Mode™ on the big screen. Your ranch on a satellite map — the boundary, food plots, ponds and roads drawn from your own GIS files — with every WildCore feeder and sensor on the property as a live pin showing its feed level and status.
A needs-attention list keeps anything from sneaking up on you: low feed, a weak battery, a missed feed, a feeder that’s gone quiet. Along the bottom, regional radar, wind, rain chances, the moon and solunar times tell the morning’s story before anyone pulls on boots. Guests in for the weekend? Hide a group of feeders from the screen and bring them back Monday.
We set it up with you before it ships — plug it into the TV’s HDMI and it’s alive. One-time purchase, no subscription. Once your ranch has one, you won’t want to run the place without it.
Sound Familiar?
If you have more than a handful of feeders, you've probably hit at least one of these.
❌ Editing schedules one at a time
Season changes, hunting dates shift, daylight moves — and you're updating 178 feeders individually. Each one a separate login, a separate save. Or even worse, requiring a hands-on visit to each one in the field to make changes.
❌ Finding out from the guide, not the system
Your guide notices a problem in the field, calls or texts you, and now you're guessing which feeder it is. With WildCore you find out the moment the controller detects an issue — by feeder name and GPS location on your ranch map. No more guessing.
❌ No logs when you actually need them
Wildlife tax exemption audit. Biologist's annual report. Ranch manager's records. Lease compliance documentation. Most controllers can't tell you when a feeder fired last Tuesday, let alone produce a season's worth of timestamped logs across the whole property. WildCore can.
❌ Gravity doors managed as fake feed times
Got gravity-door feeders? Every other controller treats each door action as a separate generic feed event, leaving you to mentally pair the opens and closes and calculate how long the door stays open. Miss the math on one and the door's open all night. Pure headache, at scale.
Here's What Ranch Mode™ Does Instead
✅ Group schedule, one save
Set the schedule for the group. Every feeder in it updates on its next check-in. Change one thing once, done.
✅ Status map at a glance
Every feeder on a single map, color-coded green / yellow / red. The one needing attention is the red dot. Two seconds.
✅ A report the moment the feeds run
Not a once-a-day digest. Shortly after each scheduled feed, one email tells you every feeder’s result — fed or not, battery, signal — for the whole group. FeedVault™ groups get one when the doors open and another when they close. Owner, manager, hunting guide, accountant — whoever needs it gets it.
✅ The first controller built for the FeedVault™ system
WildCore natively understands gravity-door feeders. Schedules show paired open/close events as a single setting with an open-feed duration, not two fake feed times to keep straight. The door logic, sequencing, and timing happen under the hood. You just pick when the feed window starts and how long the door stays open. Need it open or shut right now? Open or close any feeder’s door from the portal, on demand.
Built for the Way Ranches Actually Work
☀ Schedules That Track the Sun
Set "30 minutes before sunset" once and every feeder in the group adjusts itself every day, year-round. No spring/fall recalibration. No DST headaches. Each feeder uses its own GPS location to figure out exactly when sunset is at that spot.
📍 Multi-Property Support
Got feeders spread across leases, properties, or hunting blocks? Group them by location. Each group has its own schedule, its own report recipients, its own status view.
📧 The Right People Get the Right Emails
The moment the feeds run, one email per group tells you every feeder’s result, battery, and signal — no logging in feeder by feeder. FeedVault™ groups hear when the doors open and again when they close. Hunting guide wants real-time alerts when something's wrong? Done. Recipients are set per group, and everything is sent automatically.
📡 Pro and Plus Both Work
Pro feeders use cellular. Plus-mode Minis use your property WiFi. Mix and match within a group — cellular where there's no WiFi, WiFi where it's cheaper. Ranch Mode™ doesn't care which.
Really remote? WildCore controllers can power on a Starlink Mini just long enough to check in, then shut it back down — turning satellite internet into a feeder-friendly few-minutes-per-day load instead of a 24/7 power hog. Seamless connectivity even where cellular and WiFi can't reach. We've thought of it all.
🔒 FeedVault™ Door Control
For FeedVault™ and other gravity-door operators: schedule open and close times as a pair, coordinated across the group — and open or close any door from the portal on demand. Manage when animals can access the feed, property-wide, without touching each feeder.
🎥 Live Feeding, Ranch-Wide
Set live windows for a whole group in one save. While a window is open, Feed Now on any feeder feeds within seconds — see the deer on camera, feed that stand, watch it happen. Feed Now works feeder by feeder, so you always know exactly which stand you fed.
📶 Cellular Map & Signal
Turn on the Cellular layer of your ranch map and see every Pro’s signal strength and the tower it’s using. See which feeders have a weak tower before you place the next one.
⏱ Check-ins on Your Terms
Choose how often each group reports in — twice daily, four times daily, or feeds only. Fewer check-ins, longer battery life, set once for the whole group.
🩺 Wildlife Health Programs
Managing an authorized treatment or response program at the wildlife–livestock interface? The same WildCore Pro and Ranch Mode™ infrastructure powers WildMeds™ — program-level records, coverage analytics, and auditable delivery documentation for screwworm, cattle fever tick, and other station-based programs. Learn more at mywildmeds.com →
📊 Activity History for Every Feeder
Every feed, every check-in, every status change logged and synced to the cloud. Pull up any feeder's history when a client or manager asks, without driving out to the field.
📡 Know Which Feeders Are Low
Add the WildCore Recon™ feed level sensor and each feeder reports how much feed is left, straight to your dashboard. Across hundreds of feeders, you refill the ones that need it — not the ones you guessed at. See Recon →
📺 Your Ranch on the Lodge TV
The WildCore® Ranch Monitoring System puts the whole property on the big screen — your map with boundary, food plots and roads, every feeder's status and feed level, what needs attention, radar and weather. Pre-configured; plug it into the TV and it comes alive. See the Ranch Monitoring System →
Ranch Math
What it actually costs to run WildCore at scale.
No hidden tiers, no per-group fees
Ranch Mode™ is included with every active Plus or Pro plan. Groups, reports, paired scheduling, map view — all included. You pay for the plan on each feeder, not for the features.
Every new feeder includes the first 30 days free. No auto-renew — we email you when it's time.
Want auto-renew? Stock up on service blocks.
For ranch operators who don't want to think about renewals, WildCore lets you pre-purchase service blocks and keep them in your account. When a feeder's plan is about to expire, the system automatically applies an available block — no email reminders, no payment to make in the moment, no feeder going dark while someone chases down a credit card.
Buy a stack of blocks at the start of the season and forget about it. Service plans renew themselves as long as blocks are available and auto-renew is toggled on. Run out of blocks and the system reverts to the standard email-and-renew flow.
Running a Big Operation?
If you're managing 10+ feeders, multiple properties, or you're outfitting clients, we want to talk. Bulk pricing, distribution partnerships, and tailored deployment are all on the table. Need a custom report, a new feature added, or something else to add value to your operation? Just ask.