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Bushel Farm vs DTN (MyDTN)
Both rows from the comparison table, set side by side. Nothing here is a recommendation; the facts are the vendors' own public statements, cited on each product page.
Capabilities
Bushel Farm describes 6 of 10 capabilities (3 partial); DTN (MyDTN) describes 4 (1 partial). They differ on ai assistant, accounting, field maps & agronomy, inputs, labor & staff, equipment data. Both describe grain marketing, weather, elevator / buyer connection, mobile app.
| Capability | Bushel Farm | DTN (MyDTN) |
|---|---|---|
| AI assistant | ○ No | ? Unverified |
| Accounting | ◐ Partial | ○ No |
| Grain marketing | ● Yes | ● Yes |
| Field maps & agronomy | ● Yes | ◐ Partial |
| Inputs | ◐ Partial | ○ No |
| Labor & staff | ◐ Partial | ○ No |
| Weather | ● Yes | ● Yes |
| Equipment data | ● Yes | ○ No |
| Elevator / buyer connection | ● Yes | ● Yes |
| Mobile app | ● Yes | ● Yes |
Bushel Farm: Accounting is profit-and-loss, cost of production, land costs and a Schedule F report (Essentials tier), not full general-ledger bookkeeping. Grain marketing: contracts auto-synced from grain buyers on the Bushel Network ('over 3,500 grain and ag retail facilities'), unsold-bushel value tracking, local prices/basis comparison, futures prices, price alerts. Field maps: field mapping, soil maps, satellite imagery, rainfall and heat history. Inputs and equipment records in Lite tier; work orders (team assignment) in Essentials. Weather: per-field rainfall notifications and 24-hour forecast. Equipment: John Deere Operations Center and Climate FieldView via a paid 'Machine Data Connections' add-on. Mobile: iOS App Store and Google Play apps plus web app (app.bushelfarm.com). No AI assistant feature described on the farm product pages.
DTN (MyDTN): Grain marketing: MyDTN provides local cash-bid database, commodity/cash prices, price alerts and DTN analyst recommendations for futures and cash marketing; DTN Ag Marketplace (free iOS app) lets producers receive/confirm offers from buyers, track inventory, set target/break-even prices and view nearby bids; ProphetX adds 20-year cash-bid history, charting and futures data. Weather: hourly local forecasts and observations (vendor core strength). Agronomy: Wikipedia notes Adapt-N-based nitrogen tools in MyDTN; vendor producer page describes weather-timed spraying/irrigation/harvest only. Elevator/buyer integrations: DTN Grain Portal (web and mobile) and Grain Discovery (acquired 2025) are sold to grain buyers, who give growers branded apps for bids, offers and e-signed contracts; Grain Portal connects to FCMs for hedging. Mobile: MyDTN is mobile-responsive (no dedicated MyDTN app described); DTN Grain Portal Mobile and DTN Ag Marketplace are App Store apps; ProphetX has a mobile app.
Price, data and ownership
| Bushel Farm | DTN (MyDTN) | |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Bushel Inc. | DTN, LLC (TBG AG (Switzerland-based private holding company of the Thyssen family); DTN entities sit under DTN Global Holdings B.V.) |
| Category | whole-farm management | grain marketing |
| What the AI does | None | Unverified — AI level not assessed. |
| Pricing model | Subscription | Subscription |
| Published price | Rainfall $75/year; Lite $199/year; Essentials $599/year; Machine Data Connections add-on $999/year (page also shows $1,000/yr in one section); all tiers cover up to 20,000 acres; 30-day free trial; no permanent free tier. Accessed 2026-10-25 at bushelpowered.com/farmers/pricing. | Not published |
| Your data | Bushel's Privacy Notice (June 2026) says for farm data (field boundaries, crop, yield, agronomic records) it will 'not sell or license it to third parties for purposes unrelated to your farm operation without your explicit consent' and that it does not sell personal information; it does not state outright who owns grower data. | DTN's privacy statement says it does not sell or rent personal data except for the categories listed in its California disclosure (identifiers, customer records, commercial information), which it states are sold to 'providers of products and services to farmers, purchasers of products from farmers, and general sales and marketing companies' - key phrase: 'We may also share your personal information by selling it as part of our Services.' |
| Crops and regions | Row crops (corn and soybeans referenced; wheat in imagery); U.S. and Canada (recent-rainfall feature limited to fields in the continental U.S.) | US row-crop and livestock producers (grain cash bids, corn/soy/wheat markets; Progressive Farmer editorial); DTN also serves Canada and global agribusiness. |
| Farm size | Not published | Not published |
| Ownership | Private, investor-backed — VC-backed private (vendor says 'Independently owned and operated'; investors include The Banc Funds Company, Continental Grain/Conti Ventures, Lewis & Clark AgriFood, Cargill, Scoular, The Andersons, Germin8, 50 South Capital) | Private — private (subsidiary of TBG AG, a Swiss private holding company) |
| What else they sell | Farm software co. — farm-software-only company (Bushel's main business is software for grain buyers/ag retailers plus a fintech wallet; several investors are grain companies) | Farm software co. — farm-software-only company (DTN is a multi-industry data company serving agriculture, refined fuels, aviation, marine, utilities; not owned by an equipment, input, grain-buyer or retail firm) |
| Headquarters | Fargo, North Dakota (US) | Bloomington, MN (US) |
| Built and supported | US-built (Fargo, ND); support location not published | Global company (1,200+ employees, customers in 126 countries, offices in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific); US ag editorial and support based in Minnesota; Grain Discovery team acquired from Canada |
| Founded | 2011 | 1984 |
| Status | Active. bushelfarm.com and bushelfarm.com/pricing now 302-redirect to bushelpowered.com/farmers and /farmers/pricing; vendor copy describes the product as 'Bushel's farm management software (formerly FarmLogs, Bushel Farm)', suggesting the standalone 'Bushel Farm' brand is being folded into the Bushel name. Bundled fintech features (Bushel Wallet/Business Account, Bushel Gold Visa debit card) are provided via The Bancorp Bank, N.A. | Active. MyDTN remains the producer-facing subscription; farmer-facing grain transaction tools are shifting toward the Grain Discovery grower portal (acquired 2025) within DTN Ag Hub, which DTN plans to integrate with Grain Intelligence during 2026. The DTN Grain Portal iOS app has not been updated since v1.0.1 (2022-02-08). Variants treated as one row: MyDTN, DTN Ag Marketplace, DTN Grain Portal/Grain Discovery, ProphetX. |
| Confidence | partially verified | partially verified |
| Last reviewed | 2026-10-25 | 2026-10-25 |
Prices are quoted as shown on the vendor page on the review date and change often. Sources with access dates are on each product page: Bushel Farm and DTN (MyDTN). Request a correction.