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Canada
Joined November 2012
"I had an appointment for 10. I arrived at 9:55, but somehow I was in line for two hours." The Facebook post that started this company. Still happening this week. Tell us where you deliver: grainflow.ca/farmers
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A custom hauler with a Super-B moves 40 tonnes out of your yard in an hour. Then sits two hours in the elevator line. On your bill. The truck in the line isn't the farmer's time anymore. It's a hired hour. #Harvest2026
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Alberta harvest: 23% done. Normal: 58%. Saskatchewan: 32%. Normal: 71%. Frost, hail, sprouting, and fields you can't get on. Nobody's asking for sympathy. They're asking for a dry week. When it comes, the line at the elevator is the last place to lose it. Nudge yours: grainflow.ca/farmers
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Sask harvest: 27% done. Normal for this week: 58%. When it finally dries, five weeks of hauling happens in two. Same driveway, same morning, everyone. You can't fix the weather. Your elevator can fix the line. Nudge them: grainflow.ca/farmers
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Diesel: record high, up ~60% on the year. Rail fuel surcharge on grain: up 153%. A truck idling in an elevator line is paying both. Twice. The wait was a time problem. This fall it's a fuel bill. #Harvest2026
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"They're coming five hours one way. They don't want to get scheduled. They do when they've got a wait." Elevator operator, this summer. Nobody wants a booking until they've sat in a line once. Tell us where you deliver: grainflow.ca/farmers
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Rain shortens the hours you can combine. So when it's finally fit, everyone hauls at once. The weather picks the window. Whether or not grain is going to the bin or the elevator line is a real operational efficiency decision during harvest.
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Another yard-AI company just raised millions. For warehouses. Cameras on trucks, automated gate check-in, dwell time. The category is real and getting funded. None of them know a bushel from a barrel. The grain gate needs grain-native. #AgTech
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Wheat rallied this month because moving grain got harder, not because there's less of it. The bottleneck is the move, not the crop. Same lesson at the elevator gate, just smaller.
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Yield gets a number. Protein gets a number. Basis gets a number. The two hours a farmer sits in the elevator line? No number. Never has been. We're fixing that this harvest.
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Three weeks of camera data from a working elevator yard. Biggest surprise so far: the "busy" hours everyone complained about weren't the problem. The real waits hid in the quiet-looking mornings. You can't fix what you don't measure. #AgTech
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SK harvest: 2% done vs 6% five-year average. Cool week slowed the combines. That grain still has to move. It'll just move in bigger surges later. The yards that plan for the crush now will own September. #Harvest2026
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"I had an appointment for 10. I arrived at 9:55, but somehow I was in line for two hours." That Facebook post started this company. Harvest is here again. Your elevator can fix this. Nudge them: grainflow.ca/farmers
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4 weeks of our first live yard: the camera counts the line, the office sees it on one screen, and "go check on the trucks" is no longer somebody's job. Boring on purpose. That's what infrastructure should be. grainflow.ca #AgTech
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CN just moved a record 34M tonnes of western grain. CPKC set their own record too. The rail side of grain gets measured and celebrated. The truck line at the elevator gate? Still nobody's KPI. Grain starts in a truck. Measure the gate. #GrainLogistics
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You already know which elevators are fast and which ones eat your afternoon. You keep the list in your head. Tell us where you deliver. We will take it from there. grainflow.ca/farmers
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Trucking is fun they say
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Record crop. Fall freight up 20 to 30 percent. Basis widening. A lot of grain to move through the same gates. Every hour a truck idles in the yard is worth more this year than last.
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Rail gets the record headlines. The yard gets the trucks. Grain moves through fewer, busier elevators every year. Nobody is pricing the wait at the gate. We are. grainflow.ca
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Farmer told me he keeps a mental list of which elevators waste his time and which ones do not. Every farmer has that list. It is just not written down anywhere the elevator can see it. #westerncanada
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