Grower settlement sheets, drafted from the ticket, the grade and the contract for your settlement clerk.

A settlement starts with scale tickets, one per load, each with its weights and the factors your grader recorded. Your clerk pulls the tickets for a grower and a contract, takes the moisture and foreign material readings to your discount schedule, works out net bushels, adds drying and any storage, splits off the landlord's share where there is one, checks the lien file and builds the sheet the check will follow.

In the test, AI reads copies of those same records and drafts the whole sheet: tickets in order, factors as your grader wrote them, gross pounds to net bushels shown step by step, each discount and charge beside the schedule line it came from, and every name that belongs on the payment. Nothing posts and nothing gets paid. Your reviewer compares each draft with the sheet your office issued.

The bushel on the check is not the bushel in the test cup. Test weight is measured per Winchester bushel of 2,150.42 cubic inches, and U.S. No. 2 corn can run as light as 54 pounds. The pay bushel is a fixed standard: 56 pounds for corn, 60 for soybeans and wheat, 48 for barley and 32 for oats, as an Ohio State fact sheet lists them. A light load still divides by 56, and its test weight reaches the sheet only as a discount line. The draft keeps those two numbers apart.

Moisture is not a grade, so the standards won't price it. The Official United States Standards for Grain define moisture, yet the grade tables for corn, wheat and soybeans don't list it as a factor. Discounts, drying and shrink come from your schedule. A National Corn Handbook bulletin separates the water actually removed from handling loss, which it says is often called invisible shrink, and shows that a constant shrink factor builds in whatever handling loss its size implies. NIST Handbook 44 wants the meter's printed ticket to show the date, grain type, moisture, test weight per bushel and calibration version, so the ticket itself tells your reviewer which calibration read that load.

Foreign material means something different in each grain. Corn's factor is broken corn and foreign material: whatever falls through a 12/64 round-hole sieve, plus anything that isn't corn left on top. Wheat starts with dockage, and its foreign material is what remains after dockage and shrunken and broken kernels are gone. Soybeans carry foreign material and splits. The National Grain and Feed Association's Rule 7 says grain sold subject to dockage or foreign material trades on the net weight. Soybeans add one deduction that isn't yours to keep: the first purchaser collects the federal checkoff, figured on the net market price after any premium or discount for grade or quality, so that line is only as right as the discounts above it.

The method of settlement changes the sheet. One state's rules, Iowa's, list what every settlement sheet must show and then branch by method: if priced, the price, quantity and pricing date; if paid, the check or transfer number as well; if moved to a credit-sale contract, its type, date and number; if moved to a warehouse receipt, the receipt number and date. The same rule makes the ticket printed at weighing the document of record, has reprints marked duplicate, wants grade factors written down at the time of deposit, and keeps records six years. Iowa's tariff law also holds a storage increase off grain already in store until the next anniversary of its deposit, so two loads in one bin can sit at different rates.

The check may not be the grower's alone. Under the Food Security Act a buyer generally takes farm products free of a lender's security interest unless the notice rules were met. A direct notice must arrive within a year before the sale, name the lender, the debtor and the debtor's identifying number, the crop, crop year and county, and state any payment conditions for a release, and it must be amended within three months of a material change. States with certified central filing work from a master list, and those systems change: in March 2026 USDA approved moving Oklahoma's from the Secretary of State to the County Clerk. A 2009 North Dakota committee hearing described an elevator checking the central file under the sharecropper's name and adding lien holders to that check, with no bank's name on the check of a landlord who wasn't in the file. The draft lists every name it finds and where it came from. This describes the work and is not legal advice.

Once your reviewer agrees, new deliveries go through the same drafting for about 30 days.

Your settlement clerk approves each sheet before it posts to your grain accounting system or a check is cut.

The side-by-side keeps going on live loads, and a next job would be a separate decision with its own price.