Six Locations, One Server In The Back Of The Elevator Office
Managed IT, business email and member communications for grain and supply cooperatives, farm bureaus and commodity associations — supported from the United States.
The Short Answer
A grain or supply cooperative usually runs several locations, a hundred-odd employees, a scale house, a fuel desk and an accounting system, supported by one person who also does something else. We provide business email from $1.95 per user a month, multi-location managed IT, tested backups, and member communications priced on emails sent rather than list size — without asking you to replace the agronomy or grain accounting system you run on.
The Multi-Location Problem
Every location has its own history
The elevator, the agronomy centre, the fuel depot and the main office each accumulated their own network, their own printer nobody can reach and their own idea of where backups go. Consolidating that is usually the fastest measurable win.
Rural connectivity is a design constraint
Locations on the edge of coverage need a design that accounts for it rather than one that assumes fibre. That is a different plan, and it should be made deliberately.
Harvest is the wrong time for anything
Any change gets scheduled around your season. Nothing meaningful happens at an elevator between September and November except the thing the elevator exists for.
- Seats for staff who are not at desks Location managers, agronomists, scale operators, fuel drivers and the board, all on the co-op domain. Liberation Email from $1.95 per user a month, Mail Pro at $7.95.
- Shared addresses that route properly grain@, agronomy@, fuel@ and per-location addresses so a member who emails about a contract reaches the right desk at the right site.
- Board and governance documents Patronage records, board packets, audit files and policy documents in structured access-controlled storage at $7.49 per user a month, rather than a shared drive plus somebody’s laptop.
Email Across The Co-op
Talking To Members
Member email priced on sends
Co-ops and commodity associations hold large member lists and mail them seasonally. Liberation Campaign bills on emails sent — $20 a month covers 40,000 — so a list you mail four times a year costs four times.
Market information members actually open
Cash bids, basis, delivery windows, agronomy alerts and the annual meeting notice. This is the communication that determines whether a member delivers to you or to the co-op thirty miles away.
Annual meetings, elections and patronage
Meeting notices, ballot information, patronage statements and the member portal, on a site you control.
- We are not replacing grain accounting Whatever runs your grain accounting, agronomy and fuel systems stays. We host and support the email, the network, the website and the backups around it, and make sure they work together.
- Backups that have been restored Agricultural cooperatives are a regular ransomware target, and the failure is almost always a backup nobody tested. CodeGuard from $2.09 a month, with a restore we actually run.
- Commodity and state associations too State cattlemen’s, corn, soybean, wheat and pork associations have the same shape: a small staff, a large member list, an annual meeting and a website nobody owns. Same stack, different scale.
Keep Your Operating Systems
- Liberation Email from $1.95 per user/mo; Mail Pro $7.95 per user/mo
- Hub for Teams $7.49 per user/mo for board, patronage and audit documents
- Liberation Campaign send-based: $10/mo for 10,000 emails, $20/mo for 40,000
- Website Builder $10.99/mo, or a built site priced as a project
- CodeGuard encrypted off-site backups from $2.09/mo; SiteLock from $14.99/mo
- Multi-location network and IT support scoped per co-op
What It Costs
Agricultural Co-ops & Commodity Associations FAQs
Do we have to change our grain accounting or agronomy system?
No. Those stay. We handle the email, the network, the website, the backups and the member communications around them.
Can you support locations with poor connectivity?
Yes, but it changes the design and we will say so up front rather than deploying something that assumes fibre and then blaming the ISP.
What does member email cost for a large list?
It is billed on emails sent rather than names stored, so a co-op with a 12,000-member list that mails seasonally pays for those sends. $20 a month covers 40,000 emails.
When can work be scheduled?
Around your season. Nothing substantial happens during harvest, and any plan that ignores that is not a real plan.
Are cooperatives really a ransomware target?
Yes. Agricultural cooperatives have been hit repeatedly, often at the worst point in the season, and the recovery almost always turns on whether backups were tested. That is the single question worth asking your current provider today.
We are a state commodity association, not a co-op. Does this fit?
Yes. Small staff, large member list, an annual meeting and a website nobody owns is the same shape at a different scale, and it is priced accordingly.
Start Before Harvest
Tell us your locations, your systems and your member list size. We will scope what to consolidate first and build the schedule around your season.
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