Supply Chain & Post-Harvest
Grain Storage, Drying & Conditioning
Hold the crop safely and sell it when you choose, not when you must.
On-farm storage converts a harvest-time price taker into a seller with options, but only if the crop keeps. This module manages intake, drying, cooling, pest control and continuous monitoring, and produces the store records that buyers and assurance schemes require before a load is accepted.
- 12 capabilities
- 3 linked schemes
- Offline capable
- 12
- Capabilities in this module
- 5
- Interactive tools
- 3
- Linked support schemes
- 5
- Data integrations
- 5
- Measures reported
The ground reality
What is actually happening in grain storage in the UK
Storage allows sale outside the harvest price trough and reduces haulage pressure at the busiest point of the year, but spoilage, insect infestation and moisture migration remove the benefit invisibly. Store condition records are a routine assurance requirement and a common point of failure at audit.
Figures are as published at the time of writing. Farm policy and payment rates change frequently — verify against the primary source before relying on any number here.
In the field
Grain storage, as it actually looks
Photography from working UK holdings alongside the interface that records it. Every frame below is a commissioned slot: the brief is stated until the photograph is taken.
Grain Storage — a walkthrough
A working pass through grain storage: entering the record once, and watching it appear in the evidence pack, the calendar and the scheme application without being typed again.
- 0:00 What the module is for
- 0:48 Entering the record
- 2:05 Where it appears next
- 3:20 The evidence pack
Photography slots state their own brief until the shot is commissioned, so the layout never shifts when real images arrive.
Capabilities
What Grain Storage does
Every capability below is built on the same underlying record, so entering something once is enough for it to appear wherever it is needed.
Record and plan
- Store and bin register with capacity, construction and equipment
- Intake recording with moisture, specific weight, admixture and provenance to field
- Drying management with throughput, energy use and cost per tonne per point of moisture
Operate and monitor
- Cooling and aeration control with target temperature regimes
- Continuous temperature and moisture monitoring with alarm escalation
- Insect and rodent monitoring with trap counts and treatment records
Comply and evidence
- Approved store treatment records with authorisation checking
- Stock reconciliation between intake, store, out-loading and sales
- Blending planning to meet contract specification from mixed lots
Analyse and improve
- Out-loading and haulage documentation with sampling records
- Store hygiene, cleaning and pre-harvest preparation checklist
- Assurance store audit pack assembly
Interactive
Tools you actually use, not screens you read
These are working interfaces inside the module — maps, calculators, planners and dashboards that respond to your own holding data.
Store dashboard with temperature and moisture by bin and by probe
Store dashboard with temperature and moisture by bin and by probe
DashboardDrying cost calculator per tonne per percentage point of moisture removed
Drying cost calculator per tonne per percentage point of moisture removed
CalculatorBlending planner producing a mix that meets contract specification
Blending planner producing a mix that meets contract specification
BuilderStock reconciliation report highlighting unexplained shrinkage
Stock reconciliation report highlighting unexplained shrinkage
ToolStore readiness checklist ahead of harvest
Store readiness checklist ahead of harvest
ToolEnd to end
How Grain Storage runs, start to finish
The module is modelled as a state machine, so at any point the business knows exactly which stage every record is at and what has to happen next.
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1
Prepare and clean stores before harvest
This is where the record starts, and getting it right here removes work at every later stage.
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2
Record intake with quality and provenance
The platform prompts only for what this stage genuinely needs, and carries everything forward.
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3
Dry to safe moisture and record cost
Conflicts with scheme rules, regulatory windows and existing commitments are flagged here rather than discovered later.
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4
Cool through the aeration regime
Capture works offline, so this stage is completed in the field rather than remembered afterwards.
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5
Monitor continuously and act on alarms
Everything recorded at this point becomes evidence automatically, in every format that will later ask for it.
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6
Control pests with authorised treatments
This is the stage most businesses currently do twice, once for the operation and once for the paperwork.
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7
Blend and out-load to specification
Results feed the whole-farm view, so the effect of this stage is visible against the rest of the business.
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Reconcile stock and assemble the audit pack
The cycle closes here, and what is learned is carried into next season's plan rather than lost.
Who uses it
Built around four real jobs, not one generic user
Each of these people needs something different from the same record. The module is designed so none of them has to work around the others.
Arable farmer
4,000 tonnes of on-farm storage
Needs to know a hot spot is forming before the load is rejected.
Store manager
Central store for several farms
Needs provenance kept intact through intake and blending.
Grain buyer
Load acceptance
Needs store condition records with the delivery.
Assurance auditor
Store inspection
Needs monitoring, treatment and hygiene records for the season.
Schemes and funding
Support schemes this module works with
Agrivencia holds these schemes as data, so eligibility, payment rates, caps and windows update the day they change rather than at the next software release.
Farming Transformation Fund
Fund larger capital projects that transform farm productivity, water management or value addition.
Defra / Rural Payments Agency EnglandImproving Farm Productivity Grant
Support investment in robotics, automation and on-farm energy that raises productivity.
Defra / Rural Payments Agency EnglandFarming Equipment and Technology Fund
Contribute towards the cost of specified equipment and technology that improves productivity, slurry management or animal health and welfare.
Defra / Rural Payments AgencyRates, caps and windows change frequently and sometimes without notice. Always confirm against the current published scheme rules before applying.
Measurement
How you will know it is working
The module reports against these measures from the day it is switched on, so the value is demonstrable rather than assumed.
- 01Storage loss percentage
- 02Drying cost per tonne per point
- 03Rejections at delivery
- 04Alarm response time
- 05Percentage sold outside the harvest window
Try it now
Grain Drying Cost Calculator
The cost of taking each percentage point of moisture out of a tonne of grain, and whether it beats the drying deduction.
How this is calculated
Points removed is intake moisture minus target. Fuel cost is tonnage multiplied by points multiplied by litres per tonne per point multiplied by fuel price. Electricity is added per tonne. The comparison applies the merchant deduction to the same tonnage and points.
Excludes labour, depreciation on the drier and the weight loss inherent in removing moisture.
Traceability
The chain behind one batch
Assurance audits ask you to prove a chain you have already lived. The record is assembled as the work happens, so the audit pack is a printout rather than a fortnight of searching.
BATCH-FCBE8E
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Grown
- Who
- Field parcel
- Evidence
- Cropping record, inputs applied with dates and rates
- Held in
- Field record
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Treated
- Who
- Spray operator
- Evidence
- Spray record with product authorisation and buffer compliance
- Held in
- Spray diary
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Harvested
- Who
- Combine or contractor
- Evidence
- Weighbridge ticket, moisture and specific weight
- Held in
- Weighbridge
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Stored
- Who
- Farm or central store
- Evidence
- Store temperature and drying record, bin allocation
- Held in
- Store record
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Hauled
- Who
- Haulier
- Evidence
- Consignment note and cleanliness declaration
- Held in
- Haulage
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Delivered
- Who
- Processor
- Evidence
- Intake spec, rejection reasons if any, and settlement
- Held in
- Processor
Take the record with you
Status
Where it has got to
One tracker for a scheme application, a marketplace order and an evidence submission — because the question is always the same three questions.
Grain storage submission
Reference
AGV-FCBE-4191
- Started Complete 14 days ago Draft created and the holding record attached.
- Evidence assembled Complete 9 days ago Every required document present and within its validity period.
- Checked Complete 8 days ago Internal validation passed; two advisory warnings acknowledged.
- Submitted In progress 7 days ago Lodged with Rural Payments Agency. Receipt reference stored against the record.
- Under assessment Not started expected The published service standard for this stage is 28 days from a complete submission.
- Decision Not started The decision and any conditions attach to the record automatically.
- Payment or delivery Not started Scheduled against the payment calendar so cash flow can be planned.
Questions answered
What people ask about Grain Storage
Does this replace the software I already use?
Not necessarily. Agrivencia integrates with authoritative sources and mainstream packages rather than insisting on replacing them. Where an incumbent does one job well, the platform connects to it; where the job spans several systems and nobody does it, the platform does it.
Will it work where I have no signal?
Yes. Field capture in Grain Storage is offline first, storing locally and synchronising when a connection returns. Only around a fifth of UK farms report reliable signal across the whole holding, so this is a design assumption rather than a feature.
What happens when the scheme rules change?
Scheme rules are held as data rather than code, so a rate change, a cap change or a window closure is a content update that takes effect the same day. The platform also alerts you to what the change does to your own position.
Who owns the data I put in?
You do. The Farm Data Charter gives you a complete export in open formats at any time, and every instance of data sharing requires an explicit, revocable consent that is visible in your account.
Does it work if I farm across a border?
Yes, and that is one of the main reasons the platform exists. A business with land in more than one nation sees one reconciled view rather than two portals, with obligations and deadlines from both administrations in a single calendar.
Can my agronomist or land agent use it too?
Yes. You grant scoped, time-limited access per holding and per module, and you can revoke it in one click. Advisers never get a shared password or a blanket view.
What is the biggest limitation of this module?
Undetected hot spot causing spoilage. Mitigated by continuous monitoring with escalation. We would rather state that plainly than let you discover it after signing.
Documents
Take it away with you
Everything here is printable and works on a kitchen table with no signal. Where a document asks for an email address, it says so on the button rather than after you press it.
Safe Storage, Sold on Your Terms: Grain Store Management and Records
The practical handbook for grain storage: what the rules require, what the evidence has to show, and the mistakes that cost people money.
grain storage — evidence checklist
Every document an audit or a claim asks for, in the order it is asked for, with the validity period of each.
grain storage — record template
The record structure the module uses, as a spreadsheet, so a business not yet on the platform can start keeping it correctly today.
Data model reference
Entities, fields and integration points for grain storage, for advisers and software partners.
See Grain Storage running on your own holding
Thirty minutes, using your parcels, your schemes and your enterprises rather than a sample farm. No obligation and no sales script — if it does not fit your business we will say so.
- Free tier available
- No card required
- Your data stays yours