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CenterPoint Accounting for Agriculture vs Conservis
Both rows from the comparison table, set side by side. Nothing here is a recommendation; the facts are the vendors' own public statements, cited on each product page.
Capabilities
CenterPoint Accounting for Agriculture describes 1 of 10 capabilities (4 partial); Conservis describes 4 (3 partial). They differ on accounting, grain marketing, inputs, labor & staff, weather, equipment data, elevator / buyer connection, mobile app.
| Capability | CenterPoint Accounting for Agriculture | Conservis |
|---|---|---|
| AI assistant | ? Unverified | ? Unverified |
| Accounting | ● Yes | ◐ Partial |
| Grain marketing | ○ No | ● Yes |
| Field maps & agronomy | ◐ Partial | ◐ Partial |
| Inputs | ○ No | ● Yes |
| Labor & staff | ◐ Partial | ● Yes |
| Weather | ○ No | ? Unverified |
| Equipment data | ◐ Partial | ● Yes |
| Elevator / buyer connection | ◐ Partial | ? Unverified |
| Mobile app | ? Unverified | ◐ Partial |
CenterPoint Accounting for Agriculture: Accounting: general ledger with profitability by field, crop or herd, grain-bushel/head-count/feed inventory, Schedule F mapping, farm ratios (working capital, debt-to-asset, operating expense), depreciation and land-rent tracking; cloud-hosted or local install. Labor: integrated ag payroll (Form 943, piece-work crew pay, bilingual stubs) plus Employee Portal/Online Time Clock; not a workforce-scheduling tool. Equipment: vendor integration page lists John Deere Operations Center (pulls field boundaries into Production Analysis maps) as the only equipment-brand integration. Elevator/buyer: GrainTrac integration posts settlement checks and grain-sale invoices into CenterPoint; Plaid bank feeds. Vendor terms mention 'AI Features' but no AI assistant is described on product pages. No mobile app described on vendor pages fetched.
Conservis: Per Traction's Advanced Farm Management page: grain contract management (positions, deliveries, settlements, contracts, settlement matching); crop planning and budgeting by field, crop, input and scenario with profitability view; work orders (who is doing what, where, when) accessible 'from nearly any mobile device'; operational reporting including plan-vs-actual, FSA/acreage/yield and customizable tax/regulatory reports. Financial accounting itself is positioned in Traction's core Accounting product, which Traction says it plans to merge with this suite. Equipment: 2021 coverage listed John Deere and Climate FieldView as Conservis partners; Traction's integrations page lists John Deere Operations Center and Climate FieldView. No AI, weather, imagery/agronomy modeling or named grain-buyer feeds are described on the current page.
Price, data and ownership
| CenterPoint Accounting for Agriculture | Conservis | |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Red Wing Software, Inc. | Traction Ag Inc. (Conservis Corporation was the original company, Minneapolis MN) (Traction Ag Inc. (acquired December 2023 per Traction's company timeline). Previously owned July 2021–2023 by a TELUS Agriculture–Rabobank joint venture; NOT currently a TELUS Agriculture product.) |
| Category | accounting-financials | whole-farm management |
| What the AI does | Unverified — AI level not assessed. | Unverified — AI level not assessed. |
| Pricing model | Contact sales | Contact sales |
| Published price | Not published | Not published |
| Your data | Vendor terms state 'Customer Data remains the property of the Customer' and that Red Wing Software 'shall not sell Customer Data or use it for advertising,' though de-identified aggregated AI inputs may be used for any business purpose and personal information may be shared with third-party contract partners. | Governed by Traction Ag's Ag Data Use Agreement: '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'; aggregated anonymized benchmarking by default with opt-out. |
| Crops and regions | Row crop, livestock and mixed crop-livestock farms and agribusinesses (vendor wording); US-focused tax forms (Schedule F, Form 943). | Not specified on current vendor page; 2021 acquisition coverage described 'family and institutional farms' and 'a diverse range of crops and livestock'; U.S. and Australia |
| Farm size | Not published | Vendor describes the suite as for 'large, multi-entity operations with big acreage and large teams'; no acreage figure published |
| Ownership | Private — private | Private, investor-backed — VC-backed private (subsidiary/product line of Traction Ag Inc., which is 'owned by farm investors'; Series A led by Cooperative Ventures, a CHS–GROWMARK JV) |
| What else they sell | Farm software co. — farm-software-only company (vendor also sells general-business, nonprofit and municipal accounting/payroll editions of CenterPoint; not part of an equipment, input, grain-buyer or retailer company) | Farm software co. — farm-software-only company |
| Headquarters | Red Wing, MN (US) | Traction Ag: Auburn, Indiana, USA. Conservis historically: Minneapolis, Minnesota (US) |
| Built and supported | US-built, US support (Red Wing, MN; support hours 8:00 am-5:00 pm CT Mon-Fri; vendor states unlimited phone/email support with any paid service plan) | US-built (Minneapolis origin; now part of Indiana-based Traction Ag); US support via Traction (888-466-6080); Traction says the Conservis acquisition expanded it into Australia |
| Founded | 1979 | 2009 |
| Status | Active. Sold as part of the CenterPoint family (Accounting, Accounting for Agriculture, Fund Accounting, Payroll, Depreciation). Available as local install or Red Wing-hosted cloud service. | Absorbed/rebranded: conservis.ag now 302-redirects to tractionag.com/role/advanced-farm-management, where Conservis and Granular Business are marketed together as Traction's 'Advanced Farm Management' for large operations; Traction states it intends to bring this functionality into its core Traction Accounting system. The TELUS Agriculture ownership referenced in the task brief ended with the Traction acquisition. Conservis is no longer sold as a standalone brand with its own website. |
| Confidence | partially verified | partially verified |
| Last reviewed | 2026-10-25 | 2026-10-25 |
Sources with access dates are on each product page: CenterPoint Accounting for Agriculture and Conservis. Request a correction.