AI for grain elevators, tested on settlements and contracts your office already closed.

Last season is the answer key. A finished settlement sheet and a closed contract each record a decision your office made about one grower's grain. Neither job needs new data or a live harvest to test. Your reviewer lays a draft beside the sheet you issued and marks where they part ways.

Every settlement moves a position. One state's rules, Iowa's, call for a daily position record kept separately for each kind and class of grain, with daily increases, decreases and ending balances for total stocks, open storage, warehouse-receipted grain, and company-owned grain both unpaid and paid. A settlement or a contract moves bushels from one of those columns to another, so paperwork that lands in the wrong place surfaces when the position gets tied out.

Federal licensing is a choice with its own receipt rules. A 2019 Federal Register notice calls participation in the United States Warehouse Act program voluntary, something operators may pick to meet state or other industry requirements. Under 7 CFR 869.300 a licensed operator waits for a licensed inspector and weigher to determine quality, condition and weight before issuing a receipt, can't issue two receipts for one lot, and has to mark anything left off on purpose. USDA's fiscal 2025 report on the program counts three central filing systems licensed for electronic receipts, and says grain receipts see more varied use than cotton's, depending on whether the grain is pledged as collateral.

The trade wrote its rulebook in 1902 and still amends it. The National Grain and Feed Association's Grain Trade Rules, in the printing dated October 2025, sort weights into classes: official Class X and Class Y, certified Class I, II and III, the last also called certified house weights, and affidavit weights from a scale not inspected for certification in the past twelve months. Where a trade is made under those rules and at least one side is a member, arbitration through the association is the sole remedy. The weight class and the rules a contract names are fields a draft has to carry.

What a grower can claim depends on how the grain is held. Indiana's indemnity notice covers grain delivered to a first purchaser licensee within 15 months before a failure, and it pays a different share for stored grain than for other covered contracts. Iowa's fund can charge a per-bushel fee on purchased grain, and its waiver rule reaches grain still unpriced at the end of the fund's year. Stored, sold or deferred is a distinction your paperwork has to get right the first time.

One limit covers both jobs. The proof of concept never touches your grain accounting or scale system, a trading or hedging account, or a live contract or check, and it makes no trading or pricing decision. A person checks every settlement and every confirmation. We describe these rules so you can see the work; none of it is legal or tax advice, and your counsel and licensing agency speak for your state.