Grain Manager is in active beta. Built with growers in real harvests.

For assured combinable-crop farms

Less paperwork. More time.

Grain Manager is a quietly capable admin tool for assured UK arable farms. Print a compliant passport from your phone in under a minute, keep your Red Tractor evidence filling itself in, and always know what's in the shed, what's sold and what's been paid.

No card needed. A year's free trial with 25 passports included. Paid plans from £10 a month when you're ready.

Grain Manager on a desktop monitor, a tablet and a phone: the harvest dashboard, the Red Tractor assurance hub, and a combinable crops passport for ticket 00100 ready to print.
Paperwork and records done right
A complete hub for your grain paperwork, from passports to compliance.
No signal needed
We all know UK signal is patchy, so Grain Manager keeps working even when the networks don't.
Red Tractor
The complete Combinable Crops checklist for your assurance, built in. Inspections will never be easier.
12 months free
Get to know the system completely before subscribing, then plans start from £10 a month.

01

A lorry turns up.

You need a passport. Grain Manager fills in what it already knows: the store, the crop, the variety, the haulier, the last three loads. The haulier signs on glass, you then print it or save it as a PDF in under a minute.

  • Pick the store. Crop, variety and harvest year follow.
  • Haulier, trailer and the cleaning record carry through.
  • Sign on the screen, or print and sign with a pen.
  • Every finished passport lands in the load ledger.
The top of a combinable crops passport in Grain Manager: ticket 00100, R J Hartley and Son, the Red Tractor scheme and sticker reference, and the store and crop picker set to the main grain store.

02

The audit fills itself in.

The Red Tractor Combinable Crops checklist completes from records you were making anyway. Your day-to-day work becomes the evidence.

  • Passports, store readings, calibrations and training all count.
  • Certificates keep their expiry dates, so nothing quietly lapses.
  • Quick upload files and logs as you go about your work. Records uploaded and sorted in seconds.
  • Inspection mode makes assessments easy.
Two items on the Red Tractor checklist in Grain Manager, both marked Done: the assurance scheme and sticker reference, and the farm map and areas of risk, each with its standard code.

03

What's in the shed.

Stores and crop lots follow the yard. You can see what came in off the combine, what is left, and what is still to sell.

  • Left to sell for each crop, with a warning if you over-commit.
  • Link sheds that hold the same crop. They sell as one lot, and each shed keeps its own tonnes.
  • Monthly moisture and temperature, scored for cereals on the AHDB safe-storage model.
  • Harvest seasons, not calendar years.
The Left to sell panel in Grain Manager: winter wheat, spring barley, oilseed rape and winter beans, each with tonnes left and roughly how many lorries that is.

04

Sold, moved, paid.

Contracts sit against the crop they are sold from. As loads leave, the contract fills up. When the self-billing invoice arrives, you match it to the loads and mark them paid.

  • Firm contracts, and pledge or pool folders with a drawdown bar.
  • An estimate as the lorry leaves, the settled price when the invoice lands.
  • Catch-up for tonnes that moved before you started, without inventing old passports.
Rows of the load ledger in Grain Manager: ticket numbers, dates, winter wheat, vehicle, destination, haulier, tonnes, price per tonne, load value and a status of Ready or Completed.

05

In the yard, with no signal.

Grain stores have thick walls and thin signal. Grain Manager installs on your phone, keeps working, and syncs when you are back in range.

  • Install it and it works like an app.
  • Create passports offline. They send when the signal returns.
  • Two people in two sheds can both print. Ticket numbers do not collide.
  • Light and dark, remembered on each device.
Grain Manager on a phone in dark mode: the Install Grain Manager banner, the harvest overview, and the Quick upload and New passport buttons.

Why we built it

I'm James.

I run a family farm in Essex. In 2017 I got so fed up with the endless paperwork and filing that I decided to do something about it. So I started building a very basic version of Grain Manager in Excel for our own harvest. Ten harvests on, it's grown and it's powerful. I decided I wanted to share it with other farmers who think there must be a better way. I hope you find it as useful as I do.

I built it for me, and now I've built it for you.

James Mugleston's signature

The longer story

Pricing

Free for a year. Then a plain price, per farm business.

The trial is the whole product for 12 months, no card. After that, three plans. Prices exclude VAT.

Trial

£0for 12 months

  • The whole product, every feature
  • 25 passports included
  • No card needed
  • It's no cost and no obligation

Basic (Beta Pricing)

from£10a month

or £12 a month, paid monthly

  • 50 passports a season (about 1,500 tonnes)
  • 1 person, 1 farm site
  • £1 per extra passport

Plus (Beta Pricing)

from£20a month

or £24 a month, paid monthly

  • 100 passports a season (about 3,000 tonnes)
  • Up to 3 people, Up to 3 farm sites
  • £1 per extra passport

Pro (Beta Pricing)

from£35a month

or £42 a month, paid monthly

  • Unlimited passports
  • Unlimited people, Unlimited sites

From prices are the annual plan, paid once, spread over twelve months. See the full table and the small print.

Have a simpler season.

Grain Manager is new, and we want it to be one of the most useful tools on your farm. We're a small team, no sales department, no chatbot, and the people who build it are the people who reply. If you'd like a hand bringing your records across, email us and we'll do all we can to help.

James and the team, Essex