Grain Storage, Drying & Conditioning
Grain Storage: For Advisers & Agents
What Grain Storage changes for agronomists, agents, vets and consultants.
Advisers need scoped access, defensible records and a way to work across a client base without re-keying. 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.
In their words
What the job actually looks like
These are not marketing personas. Each one is a distinct job with a distinct constraint, and the module is designed so that solving one does not create work for the others.
Assurance auditor
Store inspection
Needs monitoring, treatment and hygiene records for the season.
- Prepare and clean stores before harvest
- Record intake with quality and provenance
- Dry to safe moisture and record cost
- Cool through the aeration regime
Grain buyer
Load acceptance
Needs store condition records with the delivery.
- Record intake with quality and provenance
- Dry to safe moisture and record cost
- Cool through the aeration regime
- Monitor continuously and act on alarms
Store manager
Central store for several farms
Needs provenance kept intact through intake and blending.
- Dry to safe moisture and record cost
- Cool through the aeration regime
- Monitor continuously and act on alarms
- Control pests with authorised treatments
End 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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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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Record intake with quality and provenance
The platform prompts only for what this stage genuinely needs, and carries everything forward.
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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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Cool through the aeration regime
Capture works offline, so this stage is completed in the field rather than remembered afterwards.
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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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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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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.
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
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.
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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
Worked example
How a business like yours would use Grain Storage
The problem: Needs to know a hot spot is forming before the load is rejected.
What they do
- Prepare and clean stores before harvest
- Record intake with quality and provenance
- Dry to safe moisture and record cost
- Cool through the aeration regime
What changes
- Storage loss percentage
- Drying cost per tonne per point
- Rejections at delivery
This is an illustrative worked example built from the module design, not a customer reference. Named case studies are published only with the business's written consent.
What we are hearing
The problems people describe to us
These are composite statements drawn from user research conversations, not attributed customer quotes. We publish named references only with written consent.
I am not short of software. I am short of one place where the same field means the same thing in all of it.
The scheme closed on a Tuesday evening. I had the application half built. Nobody told me the budget was nearly gone.
We farm on both sides of the border. Everything takes twice as long and I still cannot see the whole position on one screen.
Audit week costs me three days. Every single record they ask for is already written down somewhere on this farm.
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
Free tool
Run the numbers for your own holding
Enter your figures and get an answer you can act on, with the method shown so you can check it. Save the result to your account or take it away as a PDF.