Watson® is a web-based software application designed to help producers make decisions. It shows cause-and-effect responses that change with the production environment, shows the financial impact of the change, and recommends farm-specific nutritional or financial strategies. The nutritional strategies can involve nutritional requirements, optimizing nutrient distribution, the use of ractopamine, and feed budgets. The program can incorporate current feed prices, estimate the impact of carcass variation, and determine optimum market weight under a set series of conditions. The Watson® system integrates nutrition and financial information to help producers make decisions in a volatile market.