About GrainIQ

Built by people who understand what's at stake between harvest and sale.

GrainIQ isn't a technology company that learned about grain bins. It's a grain infrastructure company that built the technology the industry needed — and had the relationships to deploy it where it matters.

GRAINIQ · NETWORK OVERVIEW · NE ARKANSAS
ACTIVE NODES · PROJECTED YR 1
20
farms connected
MONITORED · PROJECTED YR 1
5.8M
bushels · live
REGION
NE AR
expanding Mid-South
PLATFORM
LIVE
grainiq.app

GrainIQ is currently in active deployment across Northeast Arkansas, with expansion across the Mid-South underway.

The problem we kept seeing

The same decisions. Made the same way. For thirty years.

On-farm grain storage represents billions of dollars in capital investment across the Mid-South. Almost none of it is actively managed with real data.

THE PROBLEM

Farmers invest in storage. Then they manage it manually.

Farmers across the Mid-South invest significant capital in on-farm grain storage — bins, conveyors, fans, dryers. The infrastructure is there. The grain goes in. And then the management of that grain — the monitoring, the fan decisions, the timing — gets handled the same way it was thirty years ago.

Manually. Reactively. Without real data.

The result is predictable. Quality loss that could have been caught early. Sales made at the wrong time because nobody had a clear picture of what was in the bins or where the market was heading.

Trucks called without coordination. Loads misrouted. Basis left on the table because timing decisions were made on intuition rather than information.

THE SHIFT

Decisions that used to require experience now require data.

The economics of grain farming have tightened significantly. Margin pressure means the difference between good storage management and poor storage management is more consequential than it used to be. A 2% quality loss on a 50,000 bushel bin of soybeans at current prices isn't a rounding error — it's a meaningful hit to a season's returns.

At the same time, the technology to do something about it has finally reached a price point that makes instrumentation practical at the bin level. Wireless sensors, cellular connectivity, cloud-based analysis — none of this requires significant infrastructure investment anymore.

The gap between what's possible and what most operations are actually doing has never been wider. GrainIQ closes it.

THE APPROACH

Don't replace how farmers operate. Make it better.

GrainIQ was designed around one principle: farmers don't need a system that takes over their operation. They need better information to run it themselves.

That means advisory alerts, not autonomous decisions. Market timing intelligence, not brokerage. Logistics coordination support, not a trucking company. GrainIQ sits alongside how a farmer already operates and makes every decision in that process better informed.

You still sell your grain however you choose. You still call your elevator or your buyer. You still run your operation your way. GrainIQ just makes sure you're doing it with real data instead of guesswork.

Why now

This model wasn't
practical five years ago.
Now it is.

Sensor costs have collapsed

Cable-free wireless moisture and temperature nodes that would have cost thousands per bin five years ago now install for a fraction of that. The hardware barrier that kept bin-level monitoring out of reach for most operations no longer exists.

Connectivity is everywhere

Cellular coverage across rural Arkansas has reached the point where most bin sites can support a connected node without any additional infrastructure. No farm WiFi. No IT setup. The connection is built into the hardware.

Margin pressure is real

Input costs, land costs, and compressed commodity prices have made efficient grain management a competitive necessity rather than a nice-to-have. The farmers who protect quality and time the market better than their neighbors will outperform over the long run. GrainIQ is built for those farmers.

Powered by Buffalo Grain Systems

The infrastructure
credibility behind
GrainIQ.

GrainIQ is developed and operated by Buffalo Grain Systems, Inc., based in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Buffalo Grain Systems has been working in grain handling infrastructure across the Mid-South — building relationships with the farmers, operations, and equipment ecosystems that GrainIQ now serves.

That background matters in a way that's hard to replicate. A technology startup without roots in the industry has to spend years building the trust required to get inside a farmer's operation. Buffalo Grain Systems already has it.

We show up on-site. We understand the equipment. We know what a bin looks like at 2% moisture above target at 2am in October, and we know what it costs if nobody catches it. GrainIQ is the product we built because we kept seeing that problem and knew it was solvable.

We're not a technology company that learned about grain bins. We're a grain infrastructure company that built the technology the industry needed.

On-farm infrastructure experience
Grain bins, conveyors, and handling systems across Northeast Arkansas and the Mid-South
Regional farmer relationships
Existing trust with operations across the Cash, Sedgewick, and Cherry Valley areas
Operational knowledge
We understand what happens inside a bin at every stage — harvest, conditioning, storage, and movement
On-site deployment capability
We install and support GrainIQ hardware directly — no third-party installer required
Buffalo Grain Systems, Inc.
Jonesboro, Arkansas · Serving the Mid-South
Where this is going

The coordination layer for grain storage across the Delta.

GrainIQ starts with a simple proposition: every bin should be monitored, and every farmer should have better information to make decisions with. That's enough value to justify the product on its own.

But the longer-term opportunity is larger. As regional density grows, GrainIQ gains visibility into distributed grain supply that no single elevator or buyer has. That visibility — real-time position data on stored grain across dozens of farms — is valuable to the entire market, not just the farms that generate it.

The vision is to become the coordination layer between stored grain and the decisions that determine its value. Not owning the grain. Not replacing the elevator or the trucker. Sitting in the flow of information and logistics that moves grain from bin to buyer — and capturing value at every step of that process.

01
Instrument & Monitor
Connect bins across NE Arkansas. Build the data layer. Prove value on quality protection and fan automation.
ACTIVE
02
Decide & Advise
Market timing intelligence layered on top of condition data. Sell recommendations. Fan automation with financial framing.
IN PROGRESS
03
Coordinate & Move
Light logistics layer connecting farms to truckers and buyers. Coordination margin on grain movement.
NEXT
04
Aggregate & Optimize
Regional grain position intelligence. Basis optimization. Market signal at scale across the Mid-South network.
ROADMAP
Now onboarding · Northeast Arkansas

Interested in what
we're building?

Whether you're a farmer ready to connect your operation or someone who wants to learn more about GrainIQ — we'd like to hear from you.

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