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First paid pilot is signed.
A grain terminal decided the wait-time problem was worth fixing before harvest, and worth paying for.
Now comes the real work: make the first weeks actually useful.
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Jun 14
Strange thing to hear from a scheduling company. We would rather you not wait in our line.
Show up, dump, get back to the field. That is the whole job.
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Jun 11
Dry spring, early harvest, fuel that is not getting cheaper.
When the season compresses, every hour a truck idles in a yard is an hour it is not hauling. The margin gets thin in the line.
You cannot price the diesel. You can cut the wait.
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Jun 9
Most yards are not short on capacity. They are short on a way to see what is coming.
Everyone arrives at 8. Nobody arrives at 2. Same trucks, same pit, completely different day.
Spread the arrivals and the line disappears.
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Jun 7
Drove out, saw the line, turned around, tried the next one.
Every grower has burned half a day that way. Not a bushel moved.
You should be able to see the wait before you leave home.
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Jun 4
The most useful thing we can give a grower is a saved trip.
See the line before you leave. Pick a better window. Dump and go.
No app tour required. That is the point.
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May 28
15 minutes off the average truck dwell time, across one harvest, across a 5M bushel facility:
→ ~700 producer-hours back to farmers
→ Less fuel idling in line
→ One more truck-load per shift, every shift
The math gets ugly in the other direction too.
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May 26
Mid-size SK independents are deciding faster than the majors this season.
Not because they have more risk appetite. Because the dispatcher, the GM, and the CEO often sit in the same room.
#AgTech #GrainLogistics
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May 26
Spent the morning writing the data-policy language for a grain elevator pilot.
The line that took longest: "In Phase 1, no data leaves the edge device except anonymized truck counts and queue/dwell times."
Obvious. Hard.
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May 21
Camera sees the truck pull into the lot.
Dashboard updates. Wait estimate moves. Scale gets a heads-up.
Nobody walked outside.
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May 19
Farmer at Prairieland Park, talking about wait times:
"It's a real pain in the ass."
That's the whole product spec.
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May 18
Average dwell time drops 15 minutes per truck.
Facility runs 200 trucks a day through peak. Three weeks of harvest.
That's 1,050 hours of capacity recovered.
Not a feature. A second shift.
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May 14
Stats Canada says canola up, wheat down for 2026. Lentils down 5.5%. Peas down 12.3%.
Every shift changes the delivery pattern at the elevator. The B-train of canola takes longer than the straight truck of wheat.
Most facilities won't know until trucks start showing up. #grainlogistics
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May 12
The most important number on the operator dashboard is the biggest one on the screen: how many trucks are in the yard right now.
Everything else flows from that.
Built it that way because the operator using it is doing six things at once.
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May 11
12 weeks until harvest at most prairie elevators.
That's the window where the phone-and-whiteboard scheduling either gets replaced with something better or you live with the same lineup chaos for the fourth year running.
Software shopping doesn't get easier in August.
#agtech
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May 7
Walked the yard at one of our pilot sites yesterday. Operator pointed to a corner and said "this is where it backs up first."
Sketched the camera angle on the back of a notebook.
That's what 12 weeks before harvest looks like.
#buildinpublic #agtech
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May 5
Two weeks since Cultivator Cohort 5 kick-off and the program is paying off.
A mentor connected me to the President of a major grain handler this week. On top of strong sessions and a tight cohort.
Conexus put the work in. It shows.
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May 4
Math on a bad harvest day at a grain elevator:
40 trucks × 90 min wait × diesel idle
second loads not made
field hours lost
trucker overtime
= more than the appointment system costs for a year.
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Apr 30
Farmer at Prairieland Park, asked about waiting in line at the elevator:
"It's a real pain in the ass."
That is the entire problem statement. The rest of what we do is engineering.
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GrainFlow retweeted
Our goal was to provide farmers with the very best product available. We’re looking forward to building on our successes, helping our dealers grow, and continue to improve our products as we grow.
Apr 18
Can’t beat the image quality on the @Agvisioncameras system.
Really loving the new 12” monitor and the capability of viewing up to 8 cameras at once. 👌🏻
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