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Facilities, Operations, Leadership, Data, and AI. Built for Grain.

For grain elevators, cooperatives, and processors. Led by people who have run the facility and answered to the board.

Facilities, Operations, Leadership, Data, and AI. Built for Grain.

For grain elevators, cooperatives, and processors. Led by people who have run the facility and answered to the board.

About Innovative Grain

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Innovative Grain is a consulting firm serving grain elevators, cooperatives, and processors. We help general managers and boards solve problems in five areas: facilities, operations, leadership, data, and AI. That includes planning and representing you on capital projects, fixing throughput and reconciliation bottlenecks, developing the next generation of managers, connecting your grain accounting data to near real-time dashboards through Microsoft Fabric and Power BI, and putting AI to work in your office without the hype. Every engagement is led by people with decades of hands-on grain experience, not a generalist learning your business on your dime.

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Our Services: Five Practices, One Team

Facilities & Capital Projects - Facility assessments, capacity and throughput studies, capital project planning, and owner's representation from the first budget number through startup. We bring in licensed engineering partners when a project calls for stamped design, and we sit on your side of the table when it does
Operations - Receiving and shipping workflows, inventory reconciliation, shrink and quality control, safety and compliance programs, and rescue of stalled ERP, data governance, and process projects
Leadership - Manager development, succession planning, board and GM alignment, merchandising and origination training, and strategy sessions grounded in real desk and field experience
Data & Analytics - Near real-time dashboards connected to your grain accounting system by API, unified data on Microsoft Fabric and Power BI, and role-based reporting for the office, the board, and the scale house
AI Adoption - Readiness assessments, use-case selection, pilot design, rollout, and employee training so AI actually gets used in the office and at the scale. We have rolled out Claude for Teams inside working grain elevators, and we will help you choose the right platform for your operation, whether that is Claude, Microsoft Copilot, or another tool

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What We Are / What We're Not:

We Are:

Grain operators first, consultants second
Built by people who have managed elevators, run merchandising desks, and led processing plants
One team that covers the facility, the workflow, the people, and the numbers
Your facilities, operations, and business intelligence bench when you do not have one on staff
Run by operators who have carried the position and answered to a board

We Are Not:

A software company selling you a proprietary platform to license
Traditional consultants who hand you a report and disappear
A generalist firm trying to learn your industry
An engineering firm with a design to sell you

What You Can't See Is Costing You

It Starts With Seeing the Problem

One elevator we worked with ranked their customers by volume. Their 14th largest customer seemed like a mid-tier account. But when we connected their data to share-of-production metrics, they discovered that producer was actually their biggest opportunity - they were only capturing a fraction of his bushels. That insight was invisible before. Now it's not.

The same is true of your facility and your people. A leg running short of nameplate, a receiving line that backs up every harvest, a manager who is ready for more but has never been developed. These problems stay quiet until they get expensive. We help you see them early.

Stop Making Million-dollar Decisions Based on Spreadsheets

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Level the Playing Field

You're making million-dollar decisions based on spreadsheets and gut feel while the ABCD's have data scientists on staff. That gap shouldn't exist.

Access Your Grain Accounting Data via API

Transform, visualize and reconcile your grain tickets, weights and grades, open contracts, settlements and customer information in a single dashboard.

Unify and Transform Your Data with OneLake

Migrate and unify fragmented, siloed data sources into a single, cloud-optimized foundation -accelerating time-to-insight and reducing infrastructure costs.

See all your contracts, settlements, and customer data in one place

No more searching for information in multiple databases. Access your data in near real-time for better decision making and customer service.

Deliver Role-Based Dashboards and Reporting

Democratize access to business intelligence with self-serve dashboards, custom visualizations, and actionable insights powered by tools like Microsoft Fabric and Power BI.

Keep your grain tickets, weights, grades, and settlements reconciled & audit-ready - automatically.

Why It Matters for Grain Companies

For CEO's; General Managers and Boards

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Margins are thin and good people are hard to find. Whether the question in front of you is a capital project, a stubborn shrink number, a leadership gap, or a spreadsheet that has outgrown itself, an outside team that already knows the grain business can:

Give the board an independent view before the next big capital decision
Take stalled projects across the finish line
Develop managers who are ready to run the operation
Put near real-time information in front of the people who need it
Free up your best people to focus on customers and the next season

Contact Innovative Grain

Ready to Talk Through the Problem?

Whether it is a facility question, an operations bottleneck, a leadership gap, your data, or where AI fits, start with a conversation. Tell us what you are working on.

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Innovative Grain, LLC

St Louis, Missouri 63101, United States

info@innovativegrain.com

Facilities, Operations, Leadership, Data, and AI. Built for Grain.

Facilities, Operations, Leadership, Data, and AI. Built for Grain.

"Innovative Grain's solution with Microsoft Fabric has streamlined our reconciliation process and made all of our bookkeepers' lives much easier."

"Working with Innovative Grain allows AgVision to provide another level of information visibility for our customers. This trusted partnership allows us to focus on our core solutions while giving our clients the ability to look at their operations from different angles."