BushelThe State of the Industry
This is how you're trading today.
Your pricing lives in three places, and none of them talk to each other.
DTN shows one cash bid. Your CME feed shows another. The local elevator faxed a third this morning. By the time you reconcile, the spread has moved.
Your hedge ratios are built in a spreadsheet that breaks on limit-up days.
It worked in March. It didn't work in November when beans locked limit-up for four consecutive sessions and every formula returned an error.
Margin calls arrive by email. You check email after lunch.
Your broker sent the notice at 9:14 AM. You saw it at 1:47 PM. The position was liquidated at 11:30 AM at the worst possible price.
There is a better way to trade
The Bushel Platform
Built to solve exactly that.
One dashboard. Every bid, basis, and futures price — live.
DTN cash bids, CME futures, and your local elevator's posted prices sync every 15 seconds into a single ranked view. See the real net price, after freight and shrink, before you pick up the phone.
Hedge ratios that survive limit-up days. Automatically.
Input your physical position, storage cost, and target basis. The calculator recalculates your optimal hedge ratio continuously — and flags when your coverage drifts outside tolerance, even during fast markets.
Margin calls reach you in 12 seconds. You respond in one tap.
The moment your margin balance crosses threshold, a text fires to your phone with the position, the call amount, and two options: "Fund" or "Reduce." No email. No login. No missed liquidations.
⚠ MARGIN ALERT
ZW Dec26 · 12 contracts
Call amount: $4,200
Due by: 12:00 PM CT
Portfolio Simulation
See your P&L across three market scenarios before you place a single contract.
Input your physical grain position and target delivery month. The simulator projects your net P&L under bear, flat, and bull scenarios using live basis data — so you hedge with conviction, not guesswork.
Start Free
21 days. Every feature.
No credit card.
Full access to unified pricing, automated hedge ratios, and SMS margin alerts. Cancel any time — though nobody does after their first limit-up day with Bushel running.
Free Resource
The Grain Hedging Playbook
47 pages. Written by operators, not consultants. Covers basis trading fundamentals, hedge-ratio construction for mixed-commodity portfolios, and a decision tree for every market condition from limit-down to inverse carry.
Operator Voices
From the trading desk.
"Before Bushel, I was running three browser tabs, a DTN terminal, and a spreadsheet that I'd built in 2019. The first time I saw all three feeds in one place, I actually laughed."
"The SMS margin alerts alone paid for the platform in the first month. I was on a tractor when the call came in. Two taps, funded, back to work. That's the whole value proposition."
"Our merchandisers were spending 90 minutes a day reconciling basis against futures. That's gone. They use that time to actually talk to producers now. Volume's up 14% since we switched."
"Before Bushel, I was running three browser tabs, a DTN terminal, and a spreadsheet that I'd built in 2019. The first time I saw all three feeds in one place, I actually laughed."
"The SMS margin alerts alone paid for the platform in the first month. I was on a tractor when the call came in. Two taps, funded, back to work. That's the whole value proposition."
"Our merchandisers were spending 90 minutes a day reconciling basis against futures. That's gone. They use that time to actually talk to producers now. Volume's up 14% since we switched."
"I've been in the elevator business for 28 years. The hedge calculator is the first tool I've trusted enough to run without double-checking in Excel. That's not a small thing."
"We run a mixed book — soft red winter wheat, feeder cattle, and soy meal. No other platform handles all three without switching views. Bushel treats them like what they are: one portfolio."
"During harvest crunch, we placed 340 offers in a single week. Through the platform, that's 340 times 42 seconds. By phone, that's 340 times 5 minutes. The math writes itself."
"I've been in the elevator business for 28 years. The hedge calculator is the first tool I've trusted enough to run without double-checking in Excel. That's not a small thing."
"We run a mixed book — soft red winter wheat, feeder cattle, and soy meal. No other platform handles all three without switching views. Bushel treats them like what they are: one portfolio."
"During harvest crunch, we placed 340 offers in a single week. Through the platform, that's 340 times 42 seconds. By phone, that's 340 times 5 minutes. The math writes itself."
Every Position, Every Market
The morning report is already printed.
Your positions should be green.
14,000 operators made the switch. They didn't go back to spreadsheets. They didn't miss the phone calls. They just trade better now.