Cameras on the yard. Trucks counted in real time. Wait times your farmers can actually see. GrainFlow gives everyone in the supply chain the transparency they need to stop guessing and start moving.
They don't know how long the line is until they're already in it. That uncertainty costs them time, fuel, and trust in your operation.
Farmers drive 30 minutes to find 15 trucks ahead of them. No warning. No visibility.
2–4 hr wasted waiting during peak harvestEvery hour in line is an hour not in the field. Diesel burns. Harvest windows close.
$150+ per truck per hour of idle timeFarmers remember who made them wait. Next year, they take their grain somewhere else.
1 in 4 farmers consider switching elevators over wait timesYour office gets the same call 40 times a day. You don't have a good answer.
60% of manager time on phone coordinationMount cameras at your lanes and GrainFlow's computer vision counts every truck, measures every wait, and shares it with the people who need it most: your farmers.
The tower has stood on the prairie skyline for a century. GrainFlow gives it sight: every truck counted, every wait measured, every farmer informed before they roll in blind.
No app to download. No account to create. Just a link from their elevator with real-time yard conditions, and the confidence to plan their day.
Before leaving the field, farmers pull up your yard on their phone. They see how many trucks are waiting and the current average wait time. No call needed.
Historical patterns show when lines are shortest. Farmers learn that 11 AM and 3 PM are the sweet spots. They shift their trips and skip the rush, naturally.
Instead of sitting in line for 3 hours, they arrive when the yard is clear. That's an extra combine run. An extra load delivered. Real harvest productivity gained.
When farmers can see that you're being transparent about wait times, they trust you. They stay loyal. They tell other farmers. Transparency is retention.
See what changes when farmers can see the line before they join it.
What operators and farmers see after their first season with GrainFlow.
You don't need scheduling software to improve your yard. Research and early GrainFlow deployments show that simply making queue data visible to farmers reduces peak congestion by 20–30% before any scheduling features are turned on.
When farmers can see the line, they self-organize. They shift trips to off-peak windows. They stop showing up all at once. The improvement is organic, immediate, and free of behavior change mandates.
Add GrainFlow's full scheduling and capacity planning suite, and the remaining wait times compress further, achieving the full 40%+ reduction that transforms your operation.
Key finding: Visibility alone cut wait times by 45%, with zero scheduling changes required. The full suite drives waits below 45 minutes.
Already have a farmer-facing app like MyLDC or Viterra Connect? GrainFlow feeds real-time queue and wait data directly into it, no second app for your growers to download.
Major grain companies invest millions in their own farmer-facing apps. GrainFlow doesn't replace those apps. It powers them. Our API feeds real-time queue depth, wait times, and lane status directly into your existing platform, so your growers can check the line before they hook up the trailer.
Harvest doesn't spread itself evenly. GrainFlow is built for the surge: the 6 a.m. lineup, the September crush, the day everything shows up at once.
GrainFlow starts working the day you mount cameras. As you're ready, unlock scheduling, contracts, and capacity planning, or connect the systems you already run. Our focus is congestion management and operations optimization. Where your existing tools work well, we fit around them.
Computer vision counts trucks in real-time. Know your queue depth, wait times, and lane utilization, and share it with farmers automatically.
Start HereA simple, shareable link that lets any farmer check the current line and historical wait patterns at your facility. No login required.
Start HereSee every truck in your yard without going outside. Real-time lane status, throughput tracking, and congestion alerts in one view.
Start HereCapacity-aware slot booking with propose-and-confirm negotiation. Farmers self-serve. No more phone tag.
Add When ReadySet inbound targets against outbound needs. Generate months of delivery proposals in one click.
Add When ReadyAlready manage contracts in another platform? GrainFlow is built to work alongside it. Don't have one? Contract creation, negotiation, and automatic delivery tie-back are included.
Add When ReadyGrainFlow does one job better than anything else: congestion management and operations optimization at the gate, in the yard, and on the schedule. The systems you already run generate data that makes that job sharper. We're built to connect to them, not compete with them.
Grain contracts, delivery commitments, and remaining balances, tied to every scheduled load in the yard.
Moisture, dockage, and grade results connected back to the load and the lane they came from.
Bin levels and available space, so inbound scheduling reflects what the facility can actually take.
Dispatch schedules and truck locations, so the yard knows what's coming before it turns off the highway.
Scale tickets, ERP, probe systems, weather: if it's operational data that touches the driveway, it can feed the optimization. Where an existing system works well, there's no reason to change it. Where a facility doesn't have one yet, GrainFlow's built-in scheduling, contracts, and capacity tools cover the basics. Integration scoping is part of every pilot conversation.
Tell us what systems you use today. We'll show you how GrainFlow fits around them, keeping what works and filling only the gaps.
Book a DemoIf your platform handles contracts, grain marketing, agronomy, or logistics, our API can give your users the one thing they can't see today: the line at the elevator. Let's talk about what an integration could look like.
Start a Partner ConversationGrainFlow works wherever unpredictable truck arrivals meet limited loading or unloading capacity.
Inland terminals handling harvest-season truck surges. The core use case.
Canola, soybean, and oilseed facilities requiring continuous inbound supply coordination.
Seasonal distribution hubs managing spring and fall shipping peaks.
Processing and distribution facilities with mixed inbound and outbound traffic.
From the cab of the truck to the office at the elevator.
The people waiting in line
Elevator, crush plant, and terminal managers
Regional managers & leadership
Book a 30-minute demo. We'll walk through your operation, show you the live yard view, and scope a pilot. Cameras up and running in days, not months.
No commitment required. Cancel anytime.
Straight answers about what GrainFlow does, who it's for, and how it works.
GrainFlow is inbound scheduling and yard management software for grain elevators, crush plants, fertilizer terminals, and seed plants. It replaces phone-based scheduling and whiteboards with online appointment booking and computer-vision yard monitoring that counts trucks in real time.
Facility operators (grain elevators, terminals, crush plants, fertilizer terminals, and seed plants), primarily across Western Canada and the US Plains, plus the farmers and truckers who deliver to those facilities. The system is designed for operators who currently coordinate inbound trucks by phone.
Three layers: (1) facility configuration where the operator sets capacity rules per receiving lane, commodity, and hour; (2) driver booking where farmers and truckers see available slots online and reserve a time; (3) yard intelligence where AI cameras count trucks in real time and surface queue length and dwell time on a dashboard.
Transparency is one of GrainFlow's core values. We believe customers should understand what they're paying for, how pricing is determined, and the value they can expect in return.
As an early-stage company, we're currently working with pilot customers to validate pricing and ensure it aligns with the value created. Rather than offering a one-size-fits-all package, pricing is tailored to factors such as facility size, traffic volume, number of camera views, and the capabilities required.
Most deployments are expected to fall in the range of $10,000 to $25,000 per site annually, with pilot programs available for early partners.
Our philosophy is simple: if GrainFlow doesn't create significantly more value than it costs through reduced wait times, improved throughput, better customer experience, and operational insights, then we're not doing our job.
We're always happy to walk through the economics and show exactly how we think about ROI. Interested in learning more? Let's talk.
Most scheduling and yard tools were built for warehouses and trucking. They assume steady volumes and one kind of freight. Grain is seasonal, weather-driven, and changes by the hour. GrainFlow is purpose-built for grain handling, the only platform that combines inbound farmer scheduling, computer-vision yard monitoring, and commodity-aware capacity planning. What it really replaces is the whiteboard and the phone.
No. GrainFlow focuses on congestion management and operations optimization: the gate, the queue, the yard, and the schedule. Where a facility already runs contract management, sample and grading systems, inventory tools, or TMS and fleet software, GrainFlow is designed to connect to those systems rather than replace them. Where those tools work well, there's no reason to change anything.
Facilities that don't have those systems in place can use GrainFlow's built-in scheduling, contracts, and capacity planning to get started, so you're covered either way. See partnerships and integrations.
Bryan Wattie, a Canadian agtech operator with fifteen-plus years in agriculture and agtech, including SomaDetect (dairy sensors, Merck/Alltech-backed), Lucent BioSciences (scaled to 500% year-over-year revenue growth), and Innovate BC (currently Director of Agritech Adoption, managing $6.8M in on-farm tech grants). M.Sc. Bioresource Engineering, McGill University. Read the founder story.
GrainFlow is going live at two pilot sites before harvest 2026 with a top-four global grain handler. Additional pilot sites are being added across the Canadian Prairies and the US Plains for harvest 2026 and spring 2027.
Yes. GrainFlow is in Cohort 5 of Cultivator, Saskatchewan's agtech accelerator (run by Conexus). Kick-off week was held in Regina in April 2026.
A friend in Saskatchewan posted on Facebook about waiting two hours in line at a grain elevator with a confirmed appointment. That post crystallized a problem Bryan Wattie had heard for years from grain handlers: coordination at the elevator's front gate was still phone calls and whiteboards while every other industry had moved to online booking. GrainFlow was started to fix that specific operational gap.
Visit grainflow.ca/#demo or email info@grainflow.ca. Demos are typically 20 to 30 minutes and walk through the farmer booking flow, the operator dashboard, and the camera-based yard intelligence layer.