Record book export
A finished record book, not a pile of data
Tidy records are only half the job. The export puts them into the shape your programme asks for — the same headings, the same categories, the same order — as a PDF you can print and hand in, plus CSV if you would rather work in a spreadsheet.
Why there is a template layer at all
The data model behind this app was derived from six real record books, side by side: Henry County, Tennessee; St. Lucie County, Florida, for both steer and swine, judged against a hundred-point rubric; and Johnston County, North Carolina, for goat, lamb, heifer and hog.
They disagree with each other. Not on small things — on eligibility rules, on which expenses belong in which category, on whether reflection is a free page or a set of graded prompts, on what counts as an official weigh-in.
That is the whole reason the app drives every book through a template rather than hard-coding one layout. Supporting another county is a new template file, not a new version of the app.
What the export contains
- Exhibitor details and project identification
- Every weigh-in, with date and method, official ones marked
- Lifetime average daily gain and total gain
- Feed records and cost per pound of gain
- Categorised expenses and income
- Purchase, depreciation, break-even and sale figures
- Work sessions with dates and hours
- Show entries, classes and placings
- Buyer records and letter dates
Where the formats stand
Honest about what exists today and what is next.
Henry County, Tennessee
The first format modelled, and modelled exactly. Every field in the app maps onto a line in that book.
CSV and spreadsheet export
Every record out in a plain, openable format — useful for a county whose book is not yet templated, and for anyone who would rather work in a spreadsheet.
More counties
Added as template files. A judged book with a points rubric is the harder case, and it is deliberately next — if the template layer can carry that, it can carry most things.
Keeping your records in the app does not depend on your county being templated. The figures, totals and CSV export work regardless.
Before you hand it in
A readiness check that flags gaps and fills nothing
The app can tell you that there are no work sessions logged for March, that two feed purchases have no cost against them, or that a buyer who bought has not been marked as thanked.
What it will not do is write anything into those gaps. It points at the hole. You fill it. That distinction is the entire design principle of the app, and it holds here as firmly as anywhere.
An export is a convenience, not a certification
An exported record book is a formatted copy of what you entered. It is not certified by, approved by, or submitted on behalf of any fair, school, club, association, registry or government programme.
Eligibility rules, deadlines, weigh-in requirements and record-book formats are set by your own programme and change without notice. Following them remains your responsibility.
Keep the records now. Export them when the book is due.
Free while the app is in testing. One price after that, and it stays yours.