Miller Magazine Issue: 139 July 2021

36 MILLER / july 2021 NEWS Ag Growth International Inc. (AGI) announced the signing of a partnership agreement with Bushel, Inc. Headquartered in Fargo, North Dakota, Bushel is a leading provider of software technology solutions for growers, grain buyers, ag retailers, protein producers, and food companies. Bushel provides customers with solutions including the automation of weigh scale tickets issued by grain elevators. In addition, the Bushel platform automates the contracts and settlements required to complete grain sales. These key functionalities will be added to the AGI SureTrack® platform to extend its capabil- ities, adding critical automation to ensure seamless, accurate, and transparent transactions between buy- ers and sellers of grain. In addition, AGI will have the opportunity to leverage Bushel’s strong relationships that include more than 60,000 farm-level users as well as 2,000 commercial-level grain facilities who use the Bushel platform today. “Our AGI SureTrack® customers will benefit great- ly from our new partnership with Bushel,” stated Tim Close, President & CEO of AGI. “The increased func- tionality that Bushel brings to AGI SureTrack® will help streamline key post-harvest grain selling and purchas- ing activities, bringing a new level of automation to ac- tivities that are commonly performed manually. The in- tegration of weighing data from scale tickets created at grain elevators into AGI SureTrack’s Grain Marketplace ecosystem is a significant extension of our current capability and will be a major source of value for our customers. We look forward to working with the entire Bushel team to advance our exciting technologies.” “At Bushel, we value the strength in partnerships and collaboration to unite market-leading solutions to create better value for our customers,” noted Jake Jo- raanstad, Bushel CEO & co-founder. “Our connection provides the critical grain sales data needed to reduce manual entry and save time during the busiest times of the season. Commercial grain facilities will have to field less phone calls as all parties will have clear visibility to what was purchased and sold. With privacy controls built-in, growers have the opportunity to manage how their data is seen and shared with grain facilities.” Bushel’s platform reaches 40% of grain origination in the United States, resulting in one of the largest tech- nology network effects among growers and grain buy- ers in the U.S. today. Within Bushel’s ecosystem, $22 billion of grain is contracted annually. AGI announces partnership with Bushel to further advance SureTrack offering