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Bushel Farm vs Traction Ag
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Capabilities
Bushel Farm describes 6 of 10 capabilities (3 partial); Traction Ag describes 5 (3 partial). They differ on ai assistant, accounting, grain marketing, field maps & agronomy, inputs, labor & staff, weather, elevator / buyer connection. Both describe equipment data, mobile app.
| Capability | Bushel Farm | Traction Ag |
|---|---|---|
| AI assistant | ○ No | ? Unverified |
| Accounting | ◐ Partial | ● Yes |
| Grain marketing | ● Yes | ◐ Partial |
| Field maps & agronomy | ● Yes | ◐ Partial |
| Inputs | ◐ Partial | ● Yes |
| Labor & staff | ◐ Partial | ● Yes |
| Weather | ● Yes | ○ No |
| Equipment data | ● Yes | ● Yes |
| Elevator / buyer connection | ● Yes | ◐ Partial |
| Mobile app | ● Yes | ● Yes |
Bushel Farm: Accounting is profit-and-loss, cost of production, land costs and a Schedule F report (Essentials tier), not full general-ledger bookkeeping. Grain marketing: contracts auto-synced from grain buyers on the Bushel Network ('over 3,500 grain and ag retail facilities'), unsold-bushel value tracking, local prices/basis comparison, futures prices, price alerts. Field maps: field mapping, soil maps, satellite imagery, rainfall and heat history. Inputs and equipment records in Lite tier; work orders (team assignment) in Essentials. Weather: per-field rainfall notifications and 24-hour forecast. Equipment: John Deere Operations Center and Climate FieldView via a paid 'Machine Data Connections' add-on. Mobile: iOS App Store and Google Play apps plus web app (app.bushelfarm.com). No AI assistant feature described on the farm product pages.
Traction Ag: Core product is cloud farm accounting: multi-entity books, bank/credit-card sync via Plaid, cash and accrual reports, Schedule F and 1099s, land agreements, invoicing, payroll via Paylocity add-on. Grain: scale tickets, load tracking and crop/grain inventory in Plus; full grain contract/position/settlement management is in the enterprise 'Advanced Farm Management' suite. Field records: tillage, planting, application and harvest records with per-field profitability; machine integrations are John Deere Operations Center and Climate FieldView (no Case IH/AGCO listed); no imagery or agronomy modeling described. Inputs: seed, chemical and fertilizer inventory and prepay tracking. Labor: payroll integration, work orders and roles/permissions (enterprise and Sept 2026 update). Buyer/retailer: bill import from Keystone Cooperative and FS Billing; no grain buyer contract feeds named. Mobile: Traction Mobile on Apple App Store and Google Play. No AI assistant feature found on public pages.
Price, data and ownership
| Bushel Farm | Traction Ag | |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Bushel Inc. | Traction Ag Inc. |
| Category | whole-farm management | whole-farm management |
| What the AI does | None | Unverified — AI level not assessed. |
| Pricing model | Subscription | Subscription |
| Published price | Rainfall $75/year; Lite $199/year; Essentials $599/year; Machine Data Connections add-on $999/year (page also shows $1,000/yr in one section); all tiers cover up to 20,000 acres; 30-day free trial; no permanent free tier. Accessed 2026-10-25 at bushelpowered.com/farmers/pricing. | Basic $95/month or $950/year; Plus $195/month or $1,950/year; Pro $395/month or $3,950/year (yearly billing shown as 'save 15%'); no per-acre or per-entity charges listed; free trial offered. Enterprise 'Advanced Farm Management' pricing not published. Accessed 2026-10-25 at tractionag.com/pricing-and-plans. |
| Your data | Bushel's Privacy Notice (June 2026) says for farm data (field boundaries, crop, yield, agronomic records) it will 'not sell or license it to third parties for purposes unrelated to your farm operation without your explicit consent' and that it does not sell personal information; it does not state outright who owns grower data. | Traction's Ag Data Use Agreement (Trust Center) states 'Traction believes that you are the owner of Ag Data that originates from your farm, device, or equipment' and 'Traction will not sell or share your Ag Data to third parties without your consent'; anonymized aggregated benchmarking is on by default with an opt-out. |
| Crops and regions | Row crops (corn and soybeans referenced; wheat in imagery); U.S. and Canada (recent-rainfall feature limited to fields in the continental U.S.) | '100+ crop types' with customizable harvest units; U.S. (Midwest origin) and Australia; livestock tracking not supported per FAQ |
| Farm size | Not published | Not published |
| Ownership | Private, investor-backed — VC-backed private (vendor says 'Independently owned and operated'; investors include The Banc Funds Company, Continental Grain/Conti Ventures, Lewis & Clark AgriFood, Cargill, Scoular, The Andersons, Germin8, 50 South Capital) | Private, investor-backed — VC-backed private (vendor: 'proudly independent and owned by farm investors'; $10M Series A May 2024 led by Cooperative Ventures, a CHS–GROWMARK joint venture, with Plymouth Growth; 2022 release described it as majority employee- and farmer-owned) |
| What else they sell | Farm software co. — farm-software-only company (Bushel's main business is software for grain buyers/ag retailers plus a fintech wallet; several investors are grain companies) | Farm software co. — farm-software-only company (lead investor is a venture arm of two farmer-owned cooperatives) |
| Headquarters | Fargo, North Dakota (US) | Auburn, Indiana (US) |
| Built and supported | US-built (Fargo, ND); support location not published | US-built ('Born in the Midwest'); US phone/live-chat/video support team (888-466-6080); also operates in Australia following the Conservis acquisition |
| Founded | 2011 | 2020 |
| Status | Active. bushelfarm.com and bushelfarm.com/pricing now 302-redirect to bushelpowered.com/farmers and /farmers/pricing; vendor copy describes the product as 'Bushel's farm management software (formerly FarmLogs, Bushel Farm)', suggesting the standalone 'Bushel Farm' brand is being folded into the Bushel name. Bundled fintech features (Bushel Wallet/Business Account, Bushel Gold Visa debit card) are provided via The Bancorp Bank, N.A. | Active. Now the owner of both Conservis and Granular Business, marketed together as 'Advanced Farm Management'; vendor says it plans to fold that functionality into the core Traction Accounting product. Pricing page shows overlapping promotions (one dated 'expires December 19, 2025', another 'rest of 2026 free with yearly 2027 plan — expires Nov 15'). Founders not named on site; CEO Dustin Sapp named in 2024 funding coverage; team roots in Farm Works Software. |
| Confidence | partially verified | partially verified |
| Last reviewed | 2026-10-25 | 2026-10-25 |
Prices are quoted as shown on the vendor page on the review date and change often. Sources with access dates are on each product page: Bushel Farm and Traction Ag. Request a correction.