Grain
Buying, storage, and drying at three houses. Scale tickets, storage and settlement handled by people who know your trucks by sight.
Corn · soybeans · wheat
Farmer-owned since 1926
Your grain. Your line. Your co-op.
Three houses on the Crown Valley shortline, a scale that gets checked every morning, and a board in town that farms the same dirt you do. We buy, store, and dry grain; run the agronomy counter; and keep the fuel routes moving. The elevator belongs to the people who fill it.
0MBushels licensed storage
0Member farms
0Houses on the shortline
0Harvests weighed
01 / What the co-op does
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The same four jobs since 1926 — done with better tools.
A country elevator earns its keep in the fall and proves it the rest of the year. Here is where Prairie Line shows up for its members.
Agronomy counter
Seed, chemical, and fertilizer with a real person at the counter. Prepay and input orders in spring, booked against your member account.
Prepay booking openFuel delivery
Diesel and propane routes to the farm, tank monitoring for regulars, and harvest-priority fills when the dryers are running.
Two trucks · county-wideThe shortline
Fifty-four-car trains loaded on the Crown Valley & Western. Rail bids keep our basis honest and your trucks off the interstate.
Loading weekly in season
02 / Posted board
Bids and schedules, posted where everyone can see them.
These are the numbers the Scale House Board below actually uses. Change your moisture in the settlement panel and watch these schedules do the math.
Cash bids — Sadler Junction
DEMO NUMBERS| Commodity | Delivery | Cash price | Basis |
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| Corn | Nearby | $4.12 | −28Z |
| Corn | New crop (Oct) | $4.06 | −34Z |
| Soybeans | Nearby | $10.35 | −45X |
| Soybeans | New crop (Oct) | $10.12 | −58X |
| Wheat | Nearby | $5.62 | −52N |
Posted 6:05 a.m. · subject to change · call the office to sell
Drying schedule — corn
Base moisture 15.0% · shrink 1.4%/pt
15.1–18.0: 4.5¢ per point per bushel
Over 18.0: 5.5¢ per point on the points above 18
Drying schedule — soybeans
Base moisture 13.0% · shrink 1.4%/pt
Over 13.0: 6.0¢ per point per bushel
Dock & grades
Foreign material over 3.0% (corn) / 2.0% (beans): 2¢/bu per point over
Test weight under 54 lb/bu: reviewed by the bookkeeper — never auto-discounted
03 / The workflow
Draft — not posted
The Scale House Board
Everything a member used to phone the office about — the pit queue at harvest, scale tickets, storage and settlement — on one board. The computer does the arithmetic. Deb at the scale house and the bookkeeper still make every call that touches money.
Demo data — nothing here is real
1 · Harvest dump queue
Checked from the cab before you leave the field| # | Truck | Farm | Crop | Est. bushels | Est. wait |
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Wait estimates are figured from bushels ahead of you and today’s pit pace — an estimate, not a promise. The probe line still rules.
2 · Ticket to settlement
Type your own numbers — the schedules above do the mathPLG
Draft settlement will print here
Prairie Line Grain Co-op — settlement
Ticket 24-08871 · drafted from the scaleHeld for the bookkeeper
✓ Posted to the member account. In the live build this writes the settlement; in the demo nothing leaves this browser. No check prints without the bookkeeper.
3 · Contracts & storage — Tallgren Bros., member #214
Canned member viewStorage balances
| Corn · House 2 | 12,460 bu |
| Soybeans · House 3 | 4,980 bu |
| Open storage rate | 4¢/bu/mo |
Free storage through Dec 31 on this year’s corn deliveries.
Contracts
| HTA · 5,000 bu corn · Dec · futures $4.38, basis open | 2,200 bu filled |
| Cash · 3,000 bu soybeans · Oct · $10.55 | Open |
Basis can be set with one call to the office — a person confirms every contract change.
Prepay & input orders
| Prepay credit on account | $6,150 |
| Seed corn booked | 42 units |
| 32% UAN booked | 3 loads |
Booked in spring at the agronomy counter, drawn down as it ships.
“One place to look instead of calling the office in October — and the office answers faster because of it.”
The human gate
Nothing pays out, prices grain, or changes a contract until the bookkeeper or the office clicks it. The draft is a draft.
The computer may
Figure net bushels, shrink, drying, and dock from the posted schedules; estimate the pit line; show balances.
The computer may not
Post a settlement, set a discount for light test weight, sell grain, or promise a wait time at the probe.
04 / How this demo works
What’s real here, and what isn’t.
The arithmetic is real: the settlement panel genuinely computes net bushels, shrink to base moisture, drying charges, and dock from the posted schedules, right in your browser — type your own weights and moisture and check it against your last ticket.
The judgment stays with people. Every draft stops at a “reviewed and posted by the bookkeeper” step, the same way a real Detailed In Design build would route it to the office before anything pays out.
Every number, farm, and truck on this page is invented. The co-op is fictional; the workflow is the product.