Compared honestly · checked 1 October 2026

Grain marketing software, compared.

Most grain farms don’t use any of these apps. They use a spreadsheet, a notebook, or each elevator’s own website. So this comparison starts there, and then puts six apps side by side, GrainPosition included.

Written by the person building GrainPosition, so read it knowing that. Every claim about another product comes from its own website, linked under each one. Where something couldn’t be confirmed there, the table says “not stated” rather than guess.

$199 to $3,950a year for the paid plans listed here. Most farms pay nothing, because they use a spreadsheet.

1 of 6apps here tells you when to sell. If you want advice, that matters. If you don’t, it matters too.

2 of 6belong to the biggest names in farming: Combyne to Bayer, Harvest Profit to John Deere.

Which one fits

The short version, before the table. Each card jumps to the details.

A handful of contracts with one or two buyers, and you like your own sheet.A spreadsheet You want the grain book only: what’s sold, your real average, and each settlement checked against its contract and tickets. Independent, and cheap.GrainPosition You want an established app from the app store, crop years side by side, or a marketing advisor working in it with you.Combyne You farm in the US and your elevators are on the Bushel network, so contracts can come in with no typing.Bushel Farm You want to be told when to sell: market reports, sell or hold signals, and a human advisor on the top plan.GrainFox You want profit field by field, tied to John Deere Operations Center, more than a contract book.Harvest Profit or Traction

Side by side

Show:

	GrainPositionIndependent, Winnipeg	Your spreadsheetor a notebook	Each buyer’s websitemyBunge, Richardson, CargillAg	CombyneBayer	Bushel FarmIndependent, Fargo ND	Harvest ProfitJohn Deere	GrainFoxFarmLink, Winnipeg	TractionIndependent, Indiana
Sold and left to sellper crop, across every buyer	YesContracted, priced and unsold against expected production, for each crop	If you build itRight until a row is missed	One buyerYour contracts with that buyer only, never the total	YesContracted and left to sell, updated as contracts go in	Yes% marketed and % unprotected per crop	PartlySold and unsold bushels in the profit and loss; bushels still owed on contracts	PartlyTracks sales, deliveries and inventory; the breakdown isn’t described	Top tierGrain positions on the Enterprise tier, priced on request
Your real average priceweighted by tonnes or bushels	YesWeighted per crop; open contracts stay out of it	If the formula’s rightA dragged formula breaks it quietly	NoNot across buyers	YesAverage, lowest and highest contract price per crop	YesWeighted average of final-priced bushels	MixedIts average cash price blends sold and unsold bushels	Not stated	Not stated
Settlement checkedagainst its contract and scale tickets	YesSplit into price, weight and each deduction, and checked that the statement adds up	By hand	Shows themThe checking is up to you	PartlySettled price against contract price, and total discounts	NoSettlements are in each buyer’s Bushel portal	PartlyTickets matched to contracts, settled and unsettled loads	Not stated	Top tier“Settlement matching” on the Enterprise tier
An offer, before you take itwhat it does to your book	YesFrom a screenshot or the pasted text: how sold it makes you, the new average, what’s due that month	Copy the sheet	No	Not stated	NoShows potential profit on unsold grain instead	ScenariosYield × price what-if grids for the season	ScenariosSell now or hold, against market scenarios	Not stated
Getting contracts inwithout typing them	YesA photo or PDF of contracts, tickets and settlements, or your Excel or CSV file	Typing	Already thereThe buyer enters them	YesPhoto, screenshot or PDF; buyers can email documents in	US onlyAutomatic from Bushel-network buyers, for contracts in US dollars only	TicketsScale ticket photos from the driver app; grain cart scales	Other appsLinks with AgExpert, Farm at Hand and John Deere	Not stated
Bins on the farmwhat’s in each one	YesCapacity, crop, yard, movements and counts	If you build it	NoOnly grain stored with that buyer	YesBy yard, plus bags and elevator storage	YesOn the $599 plan	YesBins, loads and landlord shares	PartlyBins in the farm profile; detail not described	YesCrop and bin inventory on Plus and Pro
Tells you when to sell	No, by designIt shows what a sale would do; the decision stays yours	No	NoShows that buyer’s bids	NoA separate product lets your own advisor work with you	No	NoAlerts when your own target prices hit	YesAI sell or hold signals, expert reports, a human advisor on the top plan	No
Canadian farmsdollars, tonnes, buyers	YesCAD or USD, tonnes or bushels at each crop’s own weight	Yes	Yes	YesCanada and the US, charged in CAD or USD	Limited“Only supports USD at this time”	LimitedAvailable in Canada, priced in USD; no canola futures feed listed	YesCanadian, with Canadian market reports	US-focusedUS tax forms; Canada not stated on its site
On a phone	BrowserBuilt for a phone’s browser; no app to install	Pinch and zoom	AppsOne per buyer	AppiPhone and Android	AppiPhone and Android	AppiPhone and Android, plus a driver app	AppiPhone and Android	AppiPhone and Android
Price a yearas listed on each site	Free in early access, then $249 CAD for founding farms, $349 at launch	Free, plus your evenings	Free	$499.99, or $49.99 a month, CAD or USD	$199 for contracts, $599 with marketing and bins; currency not stated	$1,600 USD	Free basic plan; $1,500 or $3,000 CAD; top plan per acre	$950 to $3,950; grain contracts on Enterprise, priced on request
Free trial	Free during early access; a demo and spreadsheet with no account	—	—	30 days	30 days	14 days	14 days on paid plans	Up to 30 days on some plans

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Yesdoes it Partlydoes some of it, or with a catch Nodoesn’t Not statedcouldn’t be confirmed on its own site

Each one, in a paragraph

GrainPosition

Independent, built in Winnipeg · free in early access, then $249 CAD a year for founding farms

Good at: the grain book and nothing else. What’s in each bin, every contract, the loads hauled and each settlement split into where the money went: grade, dockage and each deduction. A photo of a contract, ticket or settlement fills the form in, and a buyer’s offer can be checked against the book before you answer.

Worth knowing: your prices are not aggregated, sold or shared, and there is no second business model. It doesn’t tell you when to sell.

A spreadsheet, or a notebook

Free · already yours

Good at: exactly what you built it for. For a few contracts with one or two buyers, it’s a perfectly good answer, and there’s a free grain contract spreadsheet here with the weighted average done right.

Worth knowing: it’s only as right as its last formula, nobody checks settlements in it, and it’s hard work on a phone in the truck.

Each buyer’s website

Free · myBunge (formerly myViterra), Richardson Pioneer, CargillAg and others

Good at: your contracts, scale tickets and settlements with that one buyer, entered by the buyer, often within minutes of the truck crossing the scale.

Worth knowing: each one only shows its own grain. Sell to three buyers and you have three logins and no total: no average across them, no bins, and nobody checking their settlement but you.

Sources: myBunge, Richardson Pioneer, CargillAg

Combyne

Bayer CropScience, since the end of 2022 · $499.99 a year or $49.99 a month · 30-day trial

Good at: a mature, Canadian-built grain marketing app. Contracts, tickets and settlements read from a photo or PDF, or emailed in by your buyer. Bins by yard, grain bags and elevator storage. Crop years side by side, and a separate product so your marketing advisor can work in it with you.

Worth knowing: its data policy says “Combyne does not sell your data” and that you own what you put in. It describes itself as a division of Bayer CropScience Inc. Settlements are compared on price and total discounts rather than split deduction by deduction.

Sources: features, pricing, data use, data use policy. More in GrainPosition and Combyne, compared.

Bushel Farm

Bushel Inc., independent, Fargo, North Dakota · $199 or $599 a year · 30 days free

Good at: contracts that arrive by themselves. If your elevators run on Bushel, more than 3,500 locations in the US and Canada, contracts flow in from their own systems with nothing to type. It also tracks hedges, futures and options against your position.

Worth knowing: its help centre says it “only supports USD at this time”, so contracts in Canadian dollars don’t come in automatically. It says it doesn’t sell your data, and keeps the right to use anonymized data.

Sources: pricing, contracts in CAD, marketing overview, privacy notice

Harvest Profit

John Deere, since 2020 · $1,600 USD a year · 14-day trial

Good at: profit, field by field, live against CBOT futures, tied to John Deere Operations Center. A driver app for loads and ticket photos that works offline, grain cart scales, landlord shares and several entities. It’s farm finance software with a grain book inside, more than a grain book.

Worth knowing: it’s priced in US dollars, and its futures feeds cover corn, soybeans and US wheats, with no canola listed. In Canada you sign with John Deere Canada, and its terms let the company and its affiliates use customer data and data derived from it.

Sources: features, pricing, terms of service, Canada

GrainFox

FarmLink Marketing Solutions, Winnipeg · free basic plan, $1,500 or $3,000 CAD a year · 14-day trial

Good at: telling you what the market is doing and what to do about it. Twenty years of Canadian grain market analysis, expert reports, AI sell or hold signals and, on the top plan, a human advisor. Links with AgExpert and Farm at Hand, which many Canadian farms already use.

Worth knowing: it’s an advice service first and a record book second. It says “your data stays yours”; its privacy policy lets it use aggregated data that no longer identifies your farm.

Sources: plans, AgExpert, privacy policy, FarmLink, 20 years

Traction

Traction Ag, independent, owned by farm investors, Indiana · $950 to $3,950 a year · grain contracts on Enterprise

Good at: the books. Farm accounting, payroll, several entities, land agreements and profit per field and per bushel. It bought Granular Business and Conservis; its Enterprise tier, for large operations, adds grain contracts, positions and settlement matching.

Worth knowing: it’s built around US tax forms, and the grain contract tier is priced on request. By default it anonymizes and aggregates farm data for benchmarking, and you can turn that off.

Sources: pricing, advanced farm management, about, trust center

Where GrainPosition falls short

Fair is fair. Today, GrainPosition:

is new, in free early access, with no track record yet
has no app in the app store; it runs in your phone’s browser
doesn’t connect to other farm software or to buyers’ systems; it exports everything as CSV
doesn’t show crop years side by side yet, or track futures and basis
doesn’t tell you when to sell, and won’t

See it on a sample farm first

The demo runs in your browser on a sample Manitoba or Iowa farm. No account, and nothing you type is sent anywhere.

Open the demo Watch the two-minute video

Keeping this in a notebook, a spreadsheet or another app?

I’ll import your spreadsheet, an export from the app you use now, or photos of your contracts, and set up your book in GrainPosition for you, so you can try it on your own numbers. Nothing is charged today, and nothing starts without your yes. See how it works in two minutes.

About this page

Each product was checked against its own website on 1 October 2026: pricing, feature and help pages, data policies and app store listings, linked under each one. Prices are as listed, before tax. Products change, so check with each company before you decide.

Combyne, Bushel Farm, Harvest Profit, GrainFox, Traction, myBunge, Richardson Pioneer and CargillAg are names and trademarks of their owners. GrainPosition is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of them.

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