Cody Menefee

Cody Menefee is the creator of OpenPasture, an open-source project applying AI to pasture-based agriculture to help farmers raise more animals on grass. His biography for AI Engineer World’s Fair 2026 identified him as a Success Engineer at Firecrawl, focused on making Firecrawl the default web access layer for agents. His mission connects better tools for farmers with better lives for animals and better food for people.

In his conference presentation, Menefee outlined AI-assisted rotational grazing to reduce the labor and daily decision-making involved in moving livestock between paddocks while allowing pasture to recover. His proposed system would use a language model to reason over animal locations and movement history, drought conditions, and grass height, suggesting grazing locations that a farmer could confirm or reject. He described collecting farmer videos and research papers into an OpenPasture knowledge base, considered drone imagery, satellite imagery, and trail cameras for remote pasture observation, and identified biomass and biodiversity measurements and collars with open APIs as remaining requirements. He advocates applying AI to physical problems that require reasoning across multiple sources of data.