How can mobile trading help your grain marketing?
Grain prices can move quickly, and opportunities don’t always wait until you’re back in the office. With mobile trading you can check prices and see new offers instantly – whether you’re in the yard, on the combine or at the kitchen table.
Mobile trading can’t remove all the risk and uncertainty from grain marketing. But it can give you more visibility and control, wherever you happen to be.
One important point to note is that the Hectare Trading app works alongside our trading website, all on the same account. For instance, you can add some crop for sale on your PC and then accept an offer for that crop on your phone or tablet – everything stays synced up.
Sell your crop from your phone or tablet
Get more for your grain
In tough market conditions, an extra pound per tonne can be vital. On the Hectare Trading app, just as on the website, you can see the difference between the highest and lowest prices offered on recent listings.
This represents the advantage of selling on Hectare Trading and getting the best price from a pool of buyers. To date, our farmers have earned an average of £5.24 per tonne more for feed wheat by shopping around. Those small price differences add up across an entire harvest.
“Our farmers have earned an average of £5.24 per tonne more”
Mobile trading also lets you respond quicker to market moves, which can be very short-lived. Combined with our ex-farm and futures price alerts, the app can make sure that you don’t miss the next rally.
More choice and flexibility
With the Hectare Trading app, you have instant access to the UK’s largest network of buyers, and can see all your price offers in one place at the same time.
It’s surely a better use of your phone than ringing round buyers after a hard day in the field.
When you add your crop listing, you can specify the months you’d like to move the crop, or select “as available at harvest” if you want to sell it straight off the combine.
Mobile trading gives you flexible crop movement and free market insights – just like our website
By making it easier to sell your crop, you can sell more strategically, selling smaller tonnages to spread your price risk over time.
And there’s less paperwork to chase as all your trade confirmations can be accessed from your phone or desktop.
Stay in touch with the market
Instead of waiting for a call or catching up at the end of the day, you can check local and national grain prices on your mobile anytime – even while walking the fields or loading a trailer.
This can help you spot opportunities or see changes in the market sooner. Mobile trading keeps the grain market at your fingertips, giving you more confidence to act fast if the right deal comes along.
Also, as you can review your price offers on the move, you have the flexibility to set your review time closer to when you post your crop listing. If you’re listing in response to a market rally, this can help you sell before the rally loses steam.
It all adds up to making sure your hard work pays off. By giving you more choice, quicker access and better prices wherever you are, mobile trading means you keep more value in your pocket – and get rewarded properly for every tonne you grow.
Need help with our mobile app? Contact the Hectare Trading team and we’ll get you up and running.
This article is for general information only and is not an instruction to trade. While we make every effort to ensure the accuracy of the content at the time of publication, Hectare Trading makes no guarantee regarding the data provided.