Crop-Side Services

Our Crop-Side Team has developed two services to fulfill our vision of assisting farmers with selling their grain more profitably in the cash market.

1. Crop-Side Cash Marketing Service

Our Crop-Side Team’s mission is to provide our Crop-Side family members with the expertise and tools needed to help them consistently sell their grain more profitably in the cash market.
 
Our services and tools are designed to deliver the following specific benefits to our Crop-Side family members:

  • We assist farmers with creating an individual marketing plan and help them set profitability goals.  Once these are established our Crop-Side Team leverages the data to pinpoint price levels to sell grain.  NOTE: The plan lasts 18 months and results in cash only recommendations.
 
  • We provide an alert text message to each farmer outlining the selling price, quantity (percent of overall bushels to sell).
 
  • We document each sale on our proprietary software which provides each farmer with a side by side analysis of what we recommended compared to what each farmer has actually done.
 
  • We provide access to software that enables farmers to make better marketing decisions by allowing each farmer to run scenario analysis on their farm.  For example a farmer may ask: If I want to make $250 per acre, based on where I have sold, what price do I need?  Or: If I sold out at current prices, how much would I be making an acre?
 
  • We provide weekly newsletters that help farmers know our Crop-Side Team’s suggested price targets, and we send videos to farmers' phones to enable them to have our market information on the fly.​
​Personal consultation conversations to help farmers maximize leveraging our services, to be a thought partner, and to teach them how to market their grain most effectively.

Cash Marketing Service Pricing

We are a family owned business, and our family is like many others in that we are a modest sized farming operation.  As a result, we realize carefully managing costs and that maximizing profitability is critical to the survival of many farm operations.  Our Crop-Side Team has worked very hard to keep our price structure at a level that is affordable and is typically is significantly lower than our competitors.  Our plan costs less than two cents per bushel for the average Midwestern farmer.
 
If you have any questions about the benefits our services provide or how the costing structure works, please call our Crop-Side Team.

Farm Profit Plan

Text Message Alerts

Weekly Text Videos

Newsletters

2. Crop-Side Managed Cash Pricing Service

This is a new service being offered by our Crop-Side Team.  
We realize there are farmers who struggle to “pull the trigger” on selling their grain when the time is optimal.  The reasons for the struggle varies, but what we have heard from many who have that struggle is that they wish they had someone who could take control of their crop and execute the cash sales for them.  This program is designed to help execute cash grain sales on behalf of farmers.
 
How does this new Managed Cash Pricing service work? 
 
The farmer is still in command of key specifics:
  • Sets the quantity of bushels enrolled with Crop-Side (subject to minimum bushels)
  • Specifies the Terms of Sale, preferred delivery location, and selects delivery contract (e.g., March, May, July, etc.)
  • Arranging for the trucking to deliver the grain sold
  • Tracking profitability
 
The Crop-Side Team will take action to:
  • Establish  relevant contracts between, Buyer, Producer, and Crop-Side 
  • Execute sales on behalf of the farmer seeking to sell at optimal times (refer to the Crop-Side Charts page).
  • Notify the farmer of each sale’s details so they can track profitability and be aware of the movement of their grain crop.
  • Provide monthly report of executed sales
 
The key difference between this program and our original Crop-Side program is who executes the sale.  Under the original program it is up to the farmers to take action to execute the sale when prompted by the Sell Signal Text Message.  Under this program, the Crop-Side Team will take action to execute the sale at the optimal selling time.  Farmers utilizing this service do not receive a Sell Signal Text Message since the Crop-Side Team is responsible for executing the sale of the grain committed to the program.
 
If you have any questions about the benefits this new service provides or how the costing structure works, please call our Crop-Side Team.

Managed Cash Pricing Service Pricing

Given the additional responsibilities our Crop-Side Team would be expected execute under this program, we have established a chart of applicable cents per bushel pricing which is based upon the quantity of bushels committed by the farmer under this service.   As would be expected, the larger the quantity committed the less the applicable rate is on a per bushel basis.