AgVision Agribusiness Software • 800-759-9492 • http://www.agvision.com
Sarah Bohrer, grain merchandiser at Salamonie Mills and AgLand Grain in Warren, IN.
Sister companies Salamonie Mills and AgLand Grain of Warren, IN share common ownership, as well as some of their labor and management teams. Both of the businesses also use AgVision Agribusiness Software to manage their diverse product lines.
Salamonie Mills traces its history back to the late 1800s, making it the oldest existing agribusiness in Indiana, according to Kevin Drayer, co-owner of the two companies. AgLand Grain and Salamonie Mills have been operating under joint ownership since 2013, Drayer says.
The companies supply a wide range of agriculturally-related products, including livestock rations for cattle, swine, horses, sheep, and chickens. They also sell animal bedding and other animal products, fuel pellets, grass seed, bird seed, fly sprays, weed killer, and pond cleaner, among others.
AgVision’s software is used for all of the companies’ operations, from receiving to loadout, for billing, accounts receivables, month-end reporting, and for all the complex grain marketing operations, notes Sarah Bohrer, who has been a grain merchandiser with the company since 2003. “AgVision has been phenomenal in helping us add those diverse products to our system, and it’s great in allowing us to enter feed rations in the system. It always ties everything together.”
Bohrer says AgVision helps the companies update prices continually in the rapidly changing financial environment of agribusiness. “There are products like pond chemicals that have a fixed price,” she relates, “but so many of our other products have constantly changing prices every minute of the day as the market changes, and AgVision helps us update all of those prices easily.”
The companies have a risk-management service for farmer-customers who want help with their operations, Bohrer explains. “Our customers can track their grain deliveries and pull up their historical records off our website. It makes my life much easier that AgVision can do all of that.”
Salamonie Mills and AgLand Grain began using AgVision in 2013. “We looked at four or five other companies,” she states. “We liked AgVision because it’s user-friendly.”
AgVision’s customer service “is fantastic,” Bohrer says. “I can shoot them an email with a question, and they get back to me the same day. The grain industry changes every day, and there are specialty contracts that constantly need updating – their programmers make those changes very quickly.”
Salamonie Mills/AgLand Grain
Warren, IN • 260-375-2200
Kevin Drayer, Co-owner
Sarah Bohrer, Grain Merchandiser
Founded: 2013
Storage capacity: 3.2 million bushels
Annual grain volume: 13 million bushels
Annual sales: Salamonie Mills: $59 million;
AgLand Grain: $16 million
Crops handled: Corn, soybeans, soft red winter wheat
Number of employees: 28
Ankeny, IA
800-759-9492
Shelley Laracuente, Vice President-Marketing
Grain accounting software: AgVision Commodity Manager and Scale Interface.
Operating systems: Microsoft Windows Server and Microsoft Windows Desktop.
Software options: General ledger, disbursements, payroll, accounts receivable/bookings and prepaids, accounts payable, inventory, degree-day and budget billing, fertilizer, seed, feed manufacturing, custom mixes, patron equity, and www.agvisionanytime.com.
Reprinted from Grain Journal July/August 2019 Issue
