SELLING ON HECTARE TRADING

Join 1,000+ farmers selling on the UK’s #1 online crop marketplace. Trade with confidence and secure the best price for your grain.

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GET THE BEST PRICE

Compare all the offers for your grain in one place and know you’re getting the best price possible.

TRADE WITH VERIFIED BUYERS

Access the UK’s largest network of vetted and verified buyers.

TRACK LOCAL PRICES

Access real-time data to see what others are earning for their grain in your local area.

  • “I’ve sold wheat for £9 per tonne more than I was selling it locally!”

    Andrew, RH Maddever Farm, Suffolk

  • "No need for phoning merchants to get a price, just put up a listing on the app and the buyers come to you!"

    Adam, A&R Dunlop, Ayrshire 

  • “The platform is so easy to use and such a time saver. I got bids from all the merchants I’d normally call plus some I wouldn’t - without having to spend hours on the phone.”

    Andrew, Hale Farm, West Sussex 

HOW IT WORKS

POST A LISTING

Post your grain listing effortlessly. Simply search for your crop and add essential details like variety, harvest year and specifications. Select your farm's location, your desired movement period, and input the minimum and maximum tonnage you are looking to sell.

REVIEW PRICE OFFERS

Once your listing is live, compare incoming price offers from fully vetted and verified local and national buyers in real-time.


With full visibility, you decide which offer suits your needs.

DECIDE IF YOU WANT TO SELL

Review your offers and pick your preferred buyer. You remain in full control throughout the process; select the offer right for you or simply close your listing — there’s never any obligation to sell.

  • “The platform is so easy to use and such a time saver. I got bids from all the merchants I’d normally call plus some I wouldn’t - without having to spend hours on the phone.”

    Andrew, Hale Farm, West Sussex 

  • "No need for phoning merchants to get a price, just put up a listing on the app and the buyers come to you!"

    Adam, A&R Dunlop, Ayrshire 

  • “I’ve sold wheat for £9 per tonne more than I was selling it locally!”

    Andrew, RH Maddever Farm, Suffolk

SIGN UP IN 2 MINUTES

Joining Hectare Trading is simple and straightforward:

Provide your contact details and Red Tractor or Scottish Quality Crops assurance number to get started.

Once you’re registered, you’ll have instant access to free local market insights, the ability to set your target prices, and the option to create listings to sell your grain.

We’ll follow up with a quick verification call to confirm your details, ensuring a secure trading experience.

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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