Combyne alternative: GrainPosition and Combyne, compared honestly
Both track grain contracts, stored grain, deliveries and settlements. Compare the workflows, prices and connections before moving your records. GrainPosition is built independently in Winnipeg for grain farms in Canada and the US.
Written by the person building GrainPosition. Combyne pricing, core features and listed integrations checked against its official pages on 7 November 2026. Other sources retain their dates below.
Explore the fictional sample farm before signing up. It does not change your own book.
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 |
| Your sales on a price chart | Yes: each sale drawn on your province's price since 2016, with your break-even | Charts of your sold position; your sales against a price not stated |
| Weather near the farm, beside your contracts | Yes: the season's rain, heat, frost and drought at the nearest station against its own average, with what's left on each crop if the yield comes in short (Canada) | Not stated |
| Deadlines and a weekly email | Yes: delivery windows, price-by dates, the grade window and when payment protection ends in Coming up, and an optional Monday email | A monthly view of deliveries; scheduled reports through the advisor product (Copilot) |
| Farms in Canada and the US | Yes | Yes |
| Phone app | Works in a phone or computer browser, with home-screen access. Google Play app in review; iPhone app coming soon | Yes, for iPhone and Android |
| Crop years side by side | Yes: contracted and net settled averages with their tonnes, plus each crop's acres, yield, costs and profit, year against year | Yes |
| Load tickets and settlements | Yes, in early access: by hand, or read from a photo or PDF, and each settlement checked line by line against the contract, tickets and Grain Commission rules | Yes |
| Read a contract or ticket from a photo | Yes, for contracts, scale tickets and settlements, from a photo or PDF. Device capture queue for offline photos; reconnect and choose Read, then review before saving. In early access. | Yes |
| Connects to other farm software | Not yet. Exports everything as CSV; a connection to another tool comes if farmers ask for it | Yes: FieldView and John Deere Operations Center are listed as current integrations |
| Tools for grain marketing advisors | Yes. The farmer lets the advisor in; a Clients screen shows every farm side by side and added up by crop, with settlement lines to check (for advisors) | Yes, as a separate product (Copilot) |
| Offer grain to buyers near you | Yes: a load goes to buyers on GrainPosition's list near you and on a public board without your name; bids come back side by side with each buyer's Grain Commission licence, and contacts are swapped only when you pick one | Not stated |
| Basis and futures-only (HTA) contracts | Yes: half priced while one leg is set, the flat price worked out from futures and basis, pricing deadlines in Coming up | Yes |
| Futures and options next to grain sales | Not yet | Yes, in Copilot, with trades imported from StoneX |
| Price | $249 a year (or $25 a month) for founding farms, $349 at launch, in CAD or USD | $499.99 a year or $49.99 a month, in CAD or USD |
| Free trial | A sample farm to look around and a free spreadsheet, no account | 30 days |
| Owned by | Independent, built in Winnipeg | Bayer Crop Science, since January 2023 |
What you can try in GrainPosition
Ask GrainPosition is in its first version. The optional assistant, when enabled, explains your saved fields, crops, acreage, production, inventory, contracts, settlements and margins without changing records. It uses existing calculations and links to supporting screens. Questions and relevant records go to Anthropic only after you confirm and submit them.
Try building a bin yard without an account on the free bin yard map. Track grain in and out, keep notes and download a backup. Use Record movement or tap a bin to add or remove grain. Recent activity shows local movements. Positions stay locked until you choose Arrange yard. Duplicate a bin to reuse its capacity and crop with an empty balance. Enter known capacities, crops and grain amounts in bushels or tonnes. Sign up or sign in to save your yards and their layouts.
You can explore the read-only sample farm while signed in and return to your own book without signing out. Its optional walkthrough points out the grain position and a checked settlement.
In the signed-in bin yard, Walk the yard takes you through occupied bins one at a time, with earlier checks beside new entries. Print QR labels and scan one with your phone camera to open its bin after farm sign-in. Bin weather shows the outside-air forecast using that bin's crop, moisture and recorded or clearly assumed grain temperature. It does not measure the grain or predict spoilage.
Inventory as of a date shows the recorded grain in storage, separately from the crop-year selector. Existing bins start from a known opening balance when tracking begins; earlier unknown balances are not invented. Dated changes remain available after a bin is removed. Future production stays in the crop plan.
Transfer grain between two bins in one dated action. Both balances update together and the farm total stays the same, without recording a sale or delivery. Destination condition values are cleared for a fresh check. Temperature and moisture charts show entered checks in separate periods after new grain is added or the crop changes. They are not live sensor readings or a spoilage forecast.
Follow the contract tracking workflow, explore saved inventory or see settlement records and checks.
Choose Combyne if
You want an established product with iPhone and Android apps. You want to import harvested data from FieldView or John Deere Operations Center. Or your marketing advisor tracks futures and options for you next to your grain sales, which Combyne's advisor product does and GrainPosition doesn't yet. Those are real strengths and GrainPosition does not have them.
Look at GrainPosition if
You want your grain records, fields, field work and profit by field in the same book, and are comfortable trying an early-access product. You want to find recurring weaker-growth patches on your fields from dated satellite observations and keep scouting notes on them. You want to see what a buyer's offer does to your book before you answer, from a screenshot of the text, and where the money went on each settlement: grade, dockage and each deduction, each line explained or flagged for checking. You would rather pay less: about half, at the founding price. Or you work with a marketing advisor and want them to see, on the same screen as your sales, what each buyer actually paid. Or it matters to you who holds your contract prices.
Both products publish data policies. Combyne says farmers own their data and that sharing with other tools requires consent. GrainPosition does not sell your contract prices, aggregate them for resale or publish them to buyers. Access to a saved farm is granted by its members. Document reading and the optional assistant use Anthropic to process the information you submit, as explained in the privacy policy. Compare the Combyne data policy with GrainPosition's privacy policy rather than treating company ownership as proof of how data is used.
Moving over from Combyne or another app
- Start with an export you can obtain. Use a spreadsheet or CSV from your current tool, or start with one contract PDF. GrainPosition has no direct Combyne connection and has not validated every app's export.
- Review before importing. Match the columns and check buyer, crop, quantity, units, price and delivery dates in the import review. Save only the rows you approve.
- Reconcile the starting book. Check contract totals and remaining delivery quantities against your originals. Bin balances, historical deliveries and settlements need their own review; a contract file does not establish those records.
Keep your originals and your existing system until the new totals agree. For help by email, send a question describing the export format. Do not send private documents until you are comfortable with the privacy policy.
Other options worth knowing
Bushel Farm pulls contracts directly from grain buyers on the Bushel network, which covers more than 3,500 locations in the US and Canada. If your elevators are on it, nothing needs typing at all, though for now it only brings in contracts in US dollars. Traction is farm accounting software that bought Granular Business and Conservis; its top tier, for large operations, adds grain contracts and 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.
All of them side by side, with Harvest Profit and GrainFox too: grain marketing software compared. And on its own: GrainPosition and Harvest Profit compared.
See it before deciding anything
The real app on a made-up Manitoba farm: every tab and form, with no account. Nothing you enter there is saved.
Open the sample farmCheck a grain settlement from a photo
Upload a photo or PDF to see the settlement's figures explained and checked. Add the contract to compare its price, grade and freight.
Check a settlement photoFree, no account. Review the extracted figures before checking. Documents are processed by Anthropic and are not stored. Privacy
Sources
Core comparison checked on 7 November 2026: Combyne features, current integrations and data practices. Integration plans are not treated as shipped connections.
- Combyne pricing, checked 7 November 2026
- Combyne Ag is acquired by Bayer Crop Science
- How Combyne Connect works
- Combyne Copilot for advisors
- Bushel Farm automated contract entry
- Bushel: contracts in CAD not available today, checked 1 October 2026
- Traction advanced farm management
- About Traction, checked 1 October 2026
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.
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