Combyne alternative: GrainPosition and Combyne, compared honestly
Both track grain contracts, bins and your average price. They differ in how much they do, what they cost, and who owns them. Here is all three, including where Combyne is the better choice.
Written by the person building GrainPosition, so read it knowing that. Combyne's details checked against its own pages on 25 September 2026; sources at the bottom.
Side by side
| GrainPosition | Combyne | |
|---|---|---|
| Contracts, delivery windows, status | Yes | Yes |
| Bin and storage inventory | Yes | Yes |
| Sold, exposed and weighted average price | Yes | Yes |
| Cost of production and breakeven | Yes | Yes |
| Farms in Canada and the US | Yes | Yes |
| Load tickets and settlements | In build | Yes |
| Read a contract or ticket from a photo | No | Yes |
| Connects to other farm software | No, and not planned | Yes, including FieldView |
| Tools for grain marketing advisors | No | Yes, as a separate product |
| Price | $249 CAD a year for founding farms, $349 at launch | $499.99 a year or $49.99 a month, in CAD or USD |
| Free trial | Demo and free spreadsheet, no account | 30 days |
| Owned by | Independent, one person in Winnipeg | Bayer Crop Science, since January 2023 |
Choose Combyne if
You want it working now. You would rather photograph a settlement than type it. You already use FieldView or other farm software you want connected. Or you work with a marketing advisor who would use Combyne's advisor product alongside you. Those are real strengths and GrainPosition does not have them.
Look at GrainPosition if
You want the grain marketing part and nothing else, set up in an evening. You would rather pay less: about half, at the founding price. Or it matters to you who holds your contract prices.
On that last point, facts rather than insinuation: Combyne was acquired by Bayer Crop Science in January 2023 and says it operates at arm's length within Bayer's digital farming business. Its Connect platform is built to exchange data with other farm tools and grain buyers' systems, which is what makes the integrations work. Whether that matters is your call. GrainPosition's position is narrower and written on its front page: your prices are not aggregated, sold or shared, and there is no second business model.
Other options worth knowing
Bushel Farm pulls contracts directly from grain buyers on the Bushel network, which covers thousands of facilities in the US and Canada. If your elevators are on it, nothing needs typing at all. Traction, built from Conservis and Granular, is aimed at large, multi-entity operations and offers settlement matching. And a well-kept spreadsheet is still a reasonable answer for a small book — there is a free one on the GrainPosition page.
See it before deciding anything
The demo runs in your browser on a sample Manitoba or Iowa farm. No account, and nothing you type is sent anywhere.
Open the demoSources
- Combyne pricing, checked 25 September 2026
- Combyne Ag is acquired by Bayer Crop Science
- How Combyne Connect works
- Combyne Copilot for advisors
- Bushel Farm automated contract entry
- Traction advanced farm management
Combyne, Bushel Farm and Traction are names and trademarks of their respective owners. GrainPosition is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of them or by Bayer. Where this page says something is not verified, that means it could not be confirmed from the product's own public pages.
Spotted something out of date or wrong about Combyne? Email hello@grainposition.com and it gets corrected.