CROP TRADING FOR SELLERS

Trade confidently with our easy-to-use free app and get a fair market price for your crops every time.

CROP TRADING MADE EASY

Expand your reach

Trade with the largest network of crop buyers in one place, easily from the palm of your hand.

Trade anytime, anywhere

Create a listing to sell anytime you want using our free app or from your computer and never miss a trade opportunity.

Live market prices

Ex-farm prices, futures and breaking market news all in one place - now free for every farmer.

Verified and credit-checked buyers

Trade with confidence knowing Hectare carefully verifies and credit checks ALL buyers regularly.

Access to quick cash flow

Get paid for your crop now with Hectare’s Advance Pay with no admin and no restrictions on who you trade with.

Putting you in control

Choose who with and when you trade. Set target prices, payment terms and movement dates that fit your business.

HECTARE TRADING

BUILT BY FARMERS, FOR FARMERS

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iPhone screen with Hectare Trading UI

MAKE INFORMED DECISIONS

Always know your position

Say goodbye to spreadsheets. Know exactly what you have to sell and how much you've sold with our easy-to-use app, so you never over or undersell again.

Manage your marketing plan with our sales position calculator. Add in what % sold you want to achieve and get calculations on what tonnage to sell where.

Automatic updates every time you sell mean you ALWAYS know your real-time trading position.

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iPhone screen with Hectare Trading UI

FIGURES AT YOUR FINGERTIPS

Easily track daily grain prices

Easier now, more than ever. We make it effortless to spot great opportunities and connect with buyers.

Finally, ex-farm prices free for all farmers. Our Market Insights page is a one-stop shop for live ex-farm market prices, futures and the latest news from trusted sources such as ODA, AHDB, Farmers Weekly and more.

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iPhone with Hectare Trading UI

CONFIDENT TRADING IS HERE

Get the price you deserve

Benchmark prices from the UK’s biggest network of buyers, so you can make sure you’re always getting a fair price.

Trade with confidence. Hectare carefully verifies and credit checks ALL buyers regularly, giving you peace of mind.

Always make the most of a good price with a clear view of the carry available for each month and choose Advance Pay to get paid now for future movements.

Always be alert. Never miss a market high with instant notifications as soon as the market reaches your target price so you can quickly secure a trade.

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iPhone screen with Hectare Trading UI

GRAIN TRADING ON THE GO

With you, anywhere, anytime

Stay connected. With our free app you can be logged in at all times, receive instant notifications whenever you get a price offer and enjoy all the power of Hectare Trading on your phone.

Trade from the field or the farm office, all on an easy-to-use app, in the palm of your hand.

And if you ever need a helping hand, our friendly and experienced team are always on hand to help over email or telephone.

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NO MORE DELAYS GETTING PAID

Get paid now with no admin or restrictions

Giving arable farmers access to instant cash flow from their grain contracts — no admin, no restrictions and full trading freedom to sell to the buyer of your choice.

Rest easy knowing that with Advance Pay, you’ll be paid up to 80% of your contract value within three working days, with the remaining 20% settled on the buyer’s usual payment terms.

No admin, no restrictions, full trading freedom and transparent fees, helping farmers with access to cash flow when they need it most.

Learn more about Advance Pay

HECTARE TRADING

Download the Hectare Trading app for easy access and instant in-app notifications to your phone.

GET THE BEST PRICE FOR YOUR GRAIN

Start trading today

 FAQs

  • If you sell crops, talk to one of our team who will get you set up and trading straight away, for free.

  • Crop: Our crop trading is commodity agnostic meaning you can use it to trade any agricultural crops such as wheat, barley, oil seed rape, oats and including crops for feed and damaged crops destined for the green energy supply chain.

    Talk to us about your requirements and we’ll help get you started.

  • PROTECTING YOUR PRIVACY IS PARAMOUNT
    Protecting your data is important to Hectare and we want you to know in plain English, how we manage your data and keep it safe.

    DATA OWNERSHIP
    By using our products, you give us permission to access non-aggregated data that may contain information that can identify a person such as a telephone number, postal or email address. You own your data. Hectare will only use data the owner gives us permission to use and will delete any identifiable data should you end the relationship with us.

    DATA STORAGE
    Data is stored in the cloud using Amazon Web Services that meet or exceed industry standards. Hectare takes security measures to protect the privacy and security of your data and we regularly review our security measures to continue to keep your data safe. In the event of a natural disaster, data breach, or other unforeseen event that causes your data to be compromised, we will notify you in accordance with our privacy policy.

    HOW WE USE YOUR DATA
    We collect usage statistics, performance metrics, etc. to help with the continued development of new features, security, reliability and other improvements. We will only use anonymised aggregated usage data in order to provide and improve the services to you. We may also interpret the aggregated data in order to publish reports which benefit the owner of the data and any data published will always be anonymised and de-identified. None of this data is ever identifiable to a specific person or customer and we do not allow our customer’s data to be used for the purposes of promotion or selling products and services.

  • Hectare trading is designed to be highly cost effective and affordable for all. It’s completely free for farmers.

    Get in touch to tell us a little about your farm and what crops you have to sell and we’ll be able to help you get started.

  • Absolutely, we’re here to help. Our friendly team is dedicated to ensuring you are getting the most out of Hectare Trading and continuously updating our easy-to-access knowledge base which has clear instructions and guides.

    If you need extra help or have questions, one of the team will be happy to chat by phone or respond to an email request to give you the help you need, when you need it.

  • One of our verified and credit-checked buyers will pay you as normal under their own terms. Once a price offer is accepted the buyer will send over a legally binding contract - conveniently stored against the trade on Hectare Trading.

  • We carefully credit-check and verify all buyers. We run continuous credit checking audits on all our buyers from two different organisations to ensure that Hectare Trading is a secure platform - so you can trade with peace of mind.

  • If you don’t already have an account, you’ll need to tell us a little more about yourself to create an account to access all features of Hectare Trading. Register your interest and one of our team will get in touch to find out more about you and your business and help get you started.

    If you were using our trading tools under our previous brand name, ‘Graindex’, it’s easy to log in, you simply use the same email and password you had on Graindex to access Hectare Trading.

  • It's easy to list your crop for sale. Simply choose ‘request a price’, list your crop and send it out to 100's of interested buyers. Then all you have to do is sit back to wait for price offers to come in.

  • This is very easy to do with Hectare Trading. When listing your crop, you can enter a preferred range of movement months, buyers will then offer you prices per month so you can easily see the carry being offered for forward movements. Don’t worry though as you’re not locked in - you’re free to accept an offer for any month you like the price for.

  • Our network of verified and credit-checked buyers - those interested in buying crop that matches your listing will be instantly alerted and can offer you prices.

    It's quick and easy to get price offers to help you quickly compare offers and choose the best one for your business.

  • Yes, you can always sell more tonnage than you listed on Hectare Trading. This gives you the flexibility to make the most of a good price. You simply list a range of tonnage, buyers will offer prices based on a min and max tonnage they need and you control how much you sell to them within that range. You can even sell to more than one buyer if you choose, maximising the opportunities to achieve a fair price.

    Remember, Hectare Trading is dedicated to putting farmers in control of their crop marketing. You always decide the tonnage, who you trade with, and what's a fair price.

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