AgriCharts Launches Grains.com, a Marketplace for Farmers and Grain Buyers

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Jun 15, 2015, 09:00 ET

CHICAGO, June 15, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- AgriCharts, a division of Barchart.com, Inc. and a leading provider of information and technology solutions for agribusinesses, today announced the launch of Grains.com, an online marketplace for farmers and grain buyers. Grains.com gives farmers the ability to connect to grain elevators in North America and view their local grain bids. Farmers can then send grain elevators offers to sell their grain, including corn, soybeans and wheat. Users can also check futures prices, agricultural news and weather. Grains.com is available through any device—desktop, tablet and mobile phone, and registration is free.

"Grains.com provides a grain farmer with all of the information and tools they need to market their grain online," said Eero Pikat, President of Barchart. "Farmers can check grain bids from local elevators and make offers to sell their grain to them. And, users will be very happy to discover that we are providing this service for free," added Pikat.

Grains.com features include:

Access to local grain prices, including an interactive elevator map tool
Delayed or real-time futures quotes and charts
Real-time agricultural news
Local weather conditions, forecasts and maps
Buy and sell grain online

Grains.com is built upon Amazon Web Services' (AWS) cloud infrastructure which provides a highly reliable and scalable platform to deploy the service to tens of thousands of farmers across the United States and Canada. The platform also integrates with the AgriCharts Grain Offer System which is a service for grain elevators to monitor and manage grain offers from their clients.

"Farmers have smartphones and tablets in the fields, but the way that farmers connect to the market and sell grain has not yet seen a major change due to new technology," said Pikat. "We think Grains.com will facilitate this change—where farmers can check grain bids from any elevator through an easy-to-use map interface or zip code look-up, and then in seconds send an offer to one or more elevators. The physical grain marketplace is highly fragmented and Grains.com will work to change that by centralizing where farmers can connect with grain elevators," added Pikat.

To create a free account, visit: www.grains.com.

About AgriCharts
AgriCharts, a division of Barchart.com, Inc., which is a leading provider of market data and information, provides agricultural information and technology solutions to the agricultural industry. AgriCharts' services include agribusiness website hosting and management, market data and information, cash grain bid management, website content, and real-time quote and futures trading applications. AgriCharts' goal is to provide successful market data, information and technology solutions to facilitate growth in the agricultural industry.

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