FARGO, N.D., December 2, 2024 – Bushel, the leading provider of integrated workflow and payment solutions for agribusinesses, announced the addition of ag quoting to its platform. This enhancement offers a streamlined, digital solution to help ag retailers simplify and improve the quoting process for ag retail teams and farmers.
“The updates to these quoting capabilities are exactly what we’ve been looking for to make our processes more efficient and transparent for the retail and energy sides of our business,” said Tess Jarmin, Grain Procurement Manager at United Quality Cooperative. “With early access to enhancements like this, we’ve seen firsthand how Bushel listens to our feedback and turns it into action. Using the Bushel platform has helped us streamline operations and improve how we communicate with our farmer customers daily.”
Quoting in ag retail has traditionally been a manual and fragmented process, often dependent on spreadsheets, emailed price updates, and inconsistent follow-through, with limited visibility into sales funnels or past customer interactions. Bushel’s platform addresses these challenges by providing a digital, integrated quoting experience that ensures clarity, efficiency, and transparency between agronomists and farmers.
Bushel’s quoting capability offers ag retailers:
- Faster Quote Creation: Agronomists can build quotes with current pricing and product information uploaded directly to the platform.
- Farmer-Friendly User Interface: Farmers can request pricing, view, accept, or decline quotes digitally to reduce miscommunication and the potential for errors.
- Sales Insights: Retailers can track quote activity and acceptance rates, providing visibility into the sales funnel.
- Seamless Integration: The quoting functionality is directly connected to Bushel’s existing invoicing and payments functionality, reducing administrative burden and errors.
This enhancement reinforces Bushel’s position as a comprehensive platform supporting both grain and ag retail operations. It will be available to agribusinesses in Spring 2025.
“Over the past year, we’ve focused on adding features that solve specific challenges for ag retailers, such as enabling farmers to initiate requests for products or services,” said Bushel CEO Jake Joraanstad. “By integrating quoting functionality into the Bushel platform, we’re helping agribusinesses create full visibility into the top of the sales funnel for each team member and customer.”
Learn more: Agribusinesses interested in learning more about Bushel’s quoting capability or scheduling a demo can visit bushelpowered.com/quote-management.
About Bushel
Bushel is an independent software company based in Fargo, N.D. that provides an integrated workflow and payment solution for agriculture. Bushel’s platform includes customer relationship management, customer and commercial portals, digital payments, offer and hedge management, and farm management and advisement software. These solutions improve operational efficiency, deliver crucial insights, and increase flexibility, enabling grain buyers, processors, ag retailers, ag lenders and farmers to adapt and expand their operations. Bushel now powers more than 3,500 grain and ag retail facilities, representing more than 50% of U.S. and Canadian grain origination. Over 100,000 farmers use Bushel’s technology, making it one of the largest technology networks in U.S. agribusiness. Bushel also meets SOC 2 Type II standards, ensuring robust data security.
