Harvest Profit alternative: GrainPosition and Harvest Profit, compared honestly
Both keep a grain book: contracts, bins, loads and settlements. Harvest Profit is farm finance software built around profit field by field, with the grain book inside it. GrainPosition is only the grain book, and checks each settlement against its contract. Here is what each does, what each costs, and who owns them, including where Harvest Profit is the better choice.
Written by the person building GrainPosition, so read it knowing that. Harvest Profit's details checked against its own pages on 3 October 2026; sources at the bottom.
Side by side
| GrainPosition | Harvest Profit | |
|---|---|---|
| Contracts: cash, forward, basis, hedge-to-arrive | Priced or open (basis or futures-only). Open ones count as sold and stay out of the average until priced | Yes. Basis contracts update from live CBOT futures |
| Bins, loads and what is still owed on each contract | Yes | Yes |
| Scale tickets from a photo | Yes, and contracts and settlements too, from a photo or PDF | Yes, scale tickets, in its driver app |
| Each settlement checked line by line | Yes: grade, weight and dockage, freight and each deduction, explained or flagged, with the Canadian Grain Commission's deadline for Canadian farms | Tracks settlements; a line-by-line check isn't described on its features page |
| Log loads with no phone signal | Planned | Yes, in the driver app |
| Profit and loss, field by field | No. Cost per tonne against the price you've locked in, per crop | Yes, with profit maps from John Deere Operations Center |
| Live futures prices | No. Unsold grain is valued at the bid you type in | Corn, soybeans and three US wheats, in the US and Canada. No canola feed listed |
| Marketing plan with price alerts | Not yet | Yes |
| Equipment costs, crop insurance grid, scenarios, landlord shares, several entities | No | Yes |
| Connects to other farm software | Not yet. Exports everything as CSV | John Deere Operations Center and Agrimatics Libra CART grain cart scales |
| Phone | No app to install; built to work in a phone's browser | Apps for iPhone and Android |
| Price | $249 CAD a year (or $25 a month) for farms that join in early access, $349 after. Free during early access | $1,600 USD a year. Optional setup help, $5,000 USD |
| Trial | Free during early access, and a demo with no account | 14 days, and a 30-day money-back guarantee |
| Owned by | Independent, built in Winnipeg | John Deere, since 2020. Canadian farms sign with John Deere Canada |
Choose Harvest Profit if
You want to run the business side of the farm in one place: profit and loss by field and below it, equipment costs, crop insurance scenarios, landlord shares and several entities. You already use John Deere Operations Center or a Libra CART grain cart scale and want that data to flow in. You grow mainly corn, soybeans or US wheat and want revenue to move with live futures. Or your harvest crew needs a driver app that logs loads with no signal. Those are real strengths, and GrainPosition doesn't have them.
Look at GrainPosition if
You want the grain book and not the rest: every contract, bin and load, how much is sold and at what average, and whether each settlement paid what the contract said, set up in an evening. You grow canola, peas, lentils or other crops without a futures feed in Harvest Profit, and want to value them at your own bids. You want contracts and settlements read from a photo as well as tickets. Or you'd rather pay a few hundred Canadian dollars than $1,600 US.
On ownership, facts rather than insinuation: Harvest Profit has been part of John Deere since 2020. In Canada its contracting company is John Deere Canada ULC, and its terms say the company, its affiliates and related entities may use data about the service, including customer data and data derived from it, as set out in its privacy notice. Whether that matters is your call. GrainPosition's position is written on its front page: your prices are not aggregated, sold or shared, and there is no second business model.
Moving over from Harvest Profit or another app
If you can export your contracts to a spreadsheet or CSV, import that file into GrainPosition and the columns are matched for you; you check every row before anything is saved. Or send me the export and I’ll set up your book for you. I haven’t tested Harvest Profit’s export, so if it doesn’t come across cleanly, that’s on me to fix, not on you to retype.
Other options worth knowing
Combyne, owned by Bayer, is the closest to GrainPosition in scope, with an app from the app store and connections to FieldView (GrainPosition and Combyne compared). Traction is farm accounting software whose top tier 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.
All of them side by side, with Bushel Farm and GrainFox too: grain marketing software compared.
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
- Harvest Profit pricing: $1,600 USD a year, setup help, trial, money-back guarantee, and which crops have futures feeds. Checked 3 October 2026
- Harvest Profit features: contracts, grain inventory, driver app, integrations, live CBOT markets in the US and Canada. Checked 3 October 2026
- Harvest Profit terms of service: use of customer data, and John Deere Canada ULC as the contracting company in Canada. Checked 3 October 2026
- Harvest Profit in Canada: "Part of the John Deere family since 2020"
Harvest Profit, John Deere, Operations Center, Libra CART, Combyne and Traction are names and trademarks of their respective owners. GrainPosition is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of them. Where this page says something isn't described, that means it couldn't be confirmed from the product's own public pages.
Spotted something out of date or wrong about Harvest Profit? Email hello@grainposition.com and it gets corrected.
Keeping this in a notebook, a spreadsheet or another app?
I’m setting up the books of the first 30 farms myself. 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, 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.