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Conservis vs Traction Ag
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Capabilities
Conservis describes 4 of 10 capabilities (3 partial); Traction Ag describes 5 (3 partial). They differ on accounting, grain marketing, weather, elevator / buyer connection, mobile app. Both describe inputs, labor & staff, equipment data.
| Capability | Conservis | Traction Ag |
|---|---|---|
| AI assistant | ? Unverified | ? Unverified |
| Accounting | ◐ Partial | ● Yes |
| Grain marketing | ● Yes | ◐ Partial |
| Field maps & agronomy | ◐ Partial | ◐ Partial |
| Inputs | ● Yes | ● Yes |
| Labor & staff | ● Yes | ● Yes |
| Weather | ? Unverified | ○ No |
| Equipment data | ● Yes | ● Yes |
| Elevator / buyer connection | ? Unverified | ◐ Partial |
| Mobile app | ◐ Partial | ● Yes |
Conservis: Per Traction's Advanced Farm Management page: grain contract management (positions, deliveries, settlements, contracts, settlement matching); crop planning and budgeting by field, crop, input and scenario with profitability view; work orders (who is doing what, where, when) accessible 'from nearly any mobile device'; operational reporting including plan-vs-actual, FSA/acreage/yield and customizable tax/regulatory reports. Financial accounting itself is positioned in Traction's core Accounting product, which Traction says it plans to merge with this suite. Equipment: 2021 coverage listed John Deere and Climate FieldView as Conservis partners; Traction's integrations page lists John Deere Operations Center and Climate FieldView. No AI, weather, imagery/agronomy modeling or named grain-buyer feeds are described on the current page.
Traction Ag: Core product is cloud farm accounting: multi-entity books, bank/credit-card sync via Plaid, cash and accrual reports, Schedule F and 1099s, land agreements, invoicing, payroll via Paylocity add-on. Grain: scale tickets, load tracking and crop/grain inventory in Plus; full grain contract/position/settlement management is in the enterprise 'Advanced Farm Management' suite. Field records: tillage, planting, application and harvest records with per-field profitability; machine integrations are John Deere Operations Center and Climate FieldView (no Case IH/AGCO listed); no imagery or agronomy modeling described. Inputs: seed, chemical and fertilizer inventory and prepay tracking. Labor: payroll integration, work orders and roles/permissions (enterprise and Sept 2026 update). Buyer/retailer: bill import from Keystone Cooperative and FS Billing; no grain buyer contract feeds named. Mobile: Traction Mobile on Apple App Store and Google Play. No AI assistant feature found on public pages.
Price, data and ownership
| Conservis | Traction Ag | |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Traction Ag Inc. (Conservis Corporation was the original company, Minneapolis MN) (Traction Ag Inc. (acquired December 2023 per Traction's company timeline). Previously owned July 2021–2023 by a TELUS Agriculture–Rabobank joint venture; NOT currently a TELUS Agriculture product.) | Traction Ag Inc. |
| Category | whole-farm management | whole-farm management |
| What the AI does | Unverified — AI level not assessed. | Unverified — AI level not assessed. |
| Pricing model | Contact sales | Subscription |
| Published price | Not published | Basic $95/month or $950/year; Plus $195/month or $1,950/year; Pro $395/month or $3,950/year (yearly billing shown as 'save 15%'); no per-acre or per-entity charges listed; free trial offered. Enterprise 'Advanced Farm Management' pricing not published. Accessed 2026-10-25 at tractionag.com/pricing-and-plans. |
| Your data | Governed by Traction Ag's Ag Data Use Agreement: 'Traction believes that you are the owner of Ag Data that originates from your farm, device, or equipment' and 'Traction will not sell or share your Ag Data to third parties without your consent'; aggregated anonymized benchmarking by default with opt-out. | Traction's Ag Data Use Agreement (Trust Center) states 'Traction believes that you are the owner of Ag Data that originates from your farm, device, or equipment' and 'Traction will not sell or share your Ag Data to third parties without your consent'; anonymized aggregated benchmarking is on by default with an opt-out. |
| Crops and regions | Not specified on current vendor page; 2021 acquisition coverage described 'family and institutional farms' and 'a diverse range of crops and livestock'; U.S. and Australia | '100+ crop types' with customizable harvest units; U.S. (Midwest origin) and Australia; livestock tracking not supported per FAQ |
| Farm size | Vendor describes the suite as for 'large, multi-entity operations with big acreage and large teams'; no acreage figure published | Not published |
| Ownership | Private, investor-backed — VC-backed private (subsidiary/product line of Traction Ag Inc., which is 'owned by farm investors'; Series A led by Cooperative Ventures, a CHS–GROWMARK JV) | Private, investor-backed — VC-backed private (vendor: 'proudly independent and owned by farm investors'; $10M Series A May 2024 led by Cooperative Ventures, a CHS–GROWMARK joint venture, with Plymouth Growth; 2022 release described it as majority employee- and farmer-owned) |
| What else they sell | Farm software co. — farm-software-only company | Farm software co. — farm-software-only company (lead investor is a venture arm of two farmer-owned cooperatives) |
| Headquarters | Traction Ag: Auburn, Indiana, USA. Conservis historically: Minneapolis, Minnesota (US) | Auburn, Indiana (US) |
| Built and supported | US-built (Minneapolis origin; now part of Indiana-based Traction Ag); US support via Traction (888-466-6080); Traction says the Conservis acquisition expanded it into Australia | US-built ('Born in the Midwest'); US phone/live-chat/video support team (888-466-6080); also operates in Australia following the Conservis acquisition |
| Founded | 2009 | 2020 |
| Status | Absorbed/rebranded: conservis.ag now 302-redirects to tractionag.com/role/advanced-farm-management, where Conservis and Granular Business are marketed together as Traction's 'Advanced Farm Management' for large operations; Traction states it intends to bring this functionality into its core Traction Accounting system. The TELUS Agriculture ownership referenced in the task brief ended with the Traction acquisition. Conservis is no longer sold as a standalone brand with its own website. | Active. Now the owner of both Conservis and Granular Business, marketed together as 'Advanced Farm Management'; vendor says it plans to fold that functionality into the core Traction Accounting product. Pricing page shows overlapping promotions (one dated 'expires December 19, 2025', another 'rest of 2026 free with yearly 2027 plan — expires Nov 15'). Founders not named on site; CEO Dustin Sapp named in 2024 funding coverage; team roots in Farm Works Software. |
| 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: Conservis and Traction Ag. Request a correction.