August
01Harvest comes in.
Lots fill up store by store. Harvest tonnes, hectares and yield recorded once, against the shed they went into.
How it works
A season with Grain Manager.
Harvest seasons, not calendar years. Here is how the year runs, from the first trailer tipping to the day the assessor arrives.
September
02The first lorries.
Passports in a minute. Every load lands in the ledger with a ticket number, a destination and a haulier.
October to March
03Selling and moving.
Contracts fill as loads deliver. Pools draw down. The dashboard shows what is left to sell, crop by crop.
Through the winter
04Grain in the shed.
Simple moisture and temperature readings, logged, tracked and recorded, so you can see exactly what condition your stored crop is in and make decisions on how to store it. Cereals are monitored on the AHDB safe-storage model, and oilseed rape and pulses on the FAS holding bands.
When the invoice lands
05Settlement.
Match the self-billing invoice to the loads, price them, mark them paid. Estimates become actuals in the ledger and the reports, and the yield, an estimate while the grain is still moving, settles to the tonnes you actually delivered, plus any seed you kept.
Before the assessor
06The audit.
The checklist is already mostly done from the year's records. Print the evidence pack, or walk the stores with the screen. One business can hold several Red Tractor numbers, one for each site or one for the whole business, and a record can cover every site or only the ones you choose.
What do I need?
A plug and a printer.
Grain Manager runs on the phone in your pocket. Add a printer it can see, and away you go.
Your phone
It runs in the browser and installs like an app, on iPhone or Android. A tablet or laptop works just as well.
A wireless printer
Any printer on the farm Wi-Fi, or a Wi-Fi Direct printer where the shed has no router. iPhones print over AirPrint, Android from the share sheet. No printer to hand? Save the passport as a PDF instead.
A plug
For the printer. There is no other kit to buy and nothing to set up on a computer.
The grain price has spiked. You need to know what you've got left to sell.
That is the whole idea. Everything you need at a glance, organised and always up to date. Never miss an opportunity or misplace a record again.
Have a simpler season.
Grain Manager is new, and we want it to be one of the most useful tools on your farm. We're a small team, no sales department, no chatbot, and the people who build it are the people who reply. If you'd like a hand bringing your records across, email us and we'll do all we can to help.
James and the team, Essex