For assured combinable-crop farms
Stores, crop lots, contracts, passports and movement records in one place. Grain Manager keeps track of what you've grown, what you've committed, what's left to sell and when it's due for collection — and quietly handles the compliance paperwork that falls out of it.
Free during the beta. Built with growers in real harvests. Export your data any time.
Why I built it
So many of the systems we use are antiquated, inefficient and eat up time we don't have. The honest truth is most of us rely on extra income just to keep farming — and the admin and compliance feel like there's no let up, no momentary escape.
I'm James, I run a small family farm in Essex growing combinable crops. In 2017 I got fed up with the endless time-consuming paperwork, so I started work on Grain Manager, built on a spreadsheet. I've been working on it every year ever since, adding features and refinements. It grew. It got powerful. I've moved past the spreadsheet now and Grain Manager has undergone a complete end-to-end redevelopment. It's got to the point where I wanted to share it with every other farmer who's fighting with paperwork. I've built this for me, and I've built this for you. I hope it helps.
What it does
Everything else — passports, hygiene, records, compliance — falls out of these three naturally.
Every compliance meeting. Every lorry you load. Every passport you fill in. Every contract you manage. The small jobs that stack up into a lost afternoon — Grain Manager quietly takes most of them off your plate.
See at a glance what you've grown, what you've committed, what's left in store and when it's due for collection. So when a price moves, you know exactly what you've got to play with.
Loads, passports, contracts, moisture, hygiene, treatments — all in one place, kept tidy in the background. When the auditor turns up, you open a tab, not a filing cabinet.
How it works
Crop, variety and harvest year auto-fill from your bins.
Haulier, vehicle reg, trailer ID and ticket number captured in one screen.
Passport PDF generated, signed on glass and emailed to the merchant.
“If you love paperwork and filing, this isn't for you. If you'd rather be growing your business — it is.”
Who it's for
If you're growing wheat, barley, oats, oilseed rape, beans or peas on an assured farm, this is for you.
Honest disclaimer: if you genuinely enjoy paperwork and filing, you won't get the most out of this. Grain Manager is for people who'd rather be growing their business — or maybe even taking a day off.
Pricing
I'm looking for farmers to collaborate with on the beta. Use it on your own farm, tell me what's wrong, what's missing and what would help — keep your introductory rate after public release.
Beta
£0/while in beta
Help shape it. Use it on your own farm. No card needed.
£15/month or £120/year
Introductory rates. Early supporters keep them.
Pricing is introduced after public release. While the product is in beta it stays free — early supporters keep their introductory rates.
Request early access and I'll be in touch personally with the next steps and a short note on how to bring your existing records across. It's just me on the other end — no sales team, no chatbot.
Or email me directly: sales@grainmanager.uk
— James, Essex
