ErnteWissen
An AI grain-marketing copilot for DACH arable farmers that turns Euronext, CBoT, and WASDE signals into plain-language sell-or-hold advice and a daily SMS/WhatsApp briefing in German.
mid-size arable farmers in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland selling wheat, rapeseed, maize, and barley
- Daily plain-German SMS/WhatsApp digest of relevant futures and basis moves
- Sell-or-hold recommendations that factor in storage cost, contracts, and price targets
- Contract and forward-sale tracker with auto-alerts when a trigger price is hit
- Optional broker-buyer matching for uncommitted tonnage in your region
The current Russian export stop and WASDE-driven wheat rally show how fast a farmer's marketing window can open and close; paywalled B2B ag media isn't fast enough for daily decisions.
DLG survey finds 47% of German farms investigating AI and 9% already using it; a 465-farm study shows German wheat farmers systematically underperform passive market benchmarks, confirming strong unmet need for marketing decision support.AI is an issue on almost every second farm in Germany ↗Testing the Marketing Performance of German Wheat Farmers ↗
ZMP Live, agrarheute Markt, proplanta and agrarboerse offer raw price data, news, and one paid 'Market Watch PLUS' app, but none turn Euronext/CBoT/WASDE signals into plain-language German sell/hold advice delivered via daily WhatsApp/SMS — that conversational copilot niche appears open.ZMP Market Watch PLUS - Apps on Google Play ↗Markt | agrarheute.com ↗
ZMP Live runs a paid 'Gold Members' tier proving farmers will pay for premium market intel; however, mid-size DACH farmers are price-sensitive and agrar margins are under structural pressure (DW reports farms failing despite high food prices), so realistic ARPU is modest.ZMP Live | Real-Time Agri-Market Intelligence ↗Germany's farms are failing despite high food prices ↗
Grain markets are a permanent feature of the global economy; weather and geopolitics will keep generating event-driven demand.
MVP is straightforward: Euronext/CBoT/WASDE feeds are public, WhatsApp Business API + an LLM for German-language summarisation are commodity building blocks; main friction is non-technical — farmer trust, data provenance disclaimers, and competing with established brands like agrarheute/ZMP.Markt & Preis - Agrarmarkt-Informationen in Echtzeit | proplanta.de ↗