Oleg VAU AGRO: Grain Buying

The grain is harvested and sitting in storage, and you have one question: who to sell it to and at what price. The bot of Oleg from VAU AGRO exists for that conversation. Press START and write what you have. 🌾

The company states that it buys grain. It posts current prices in its Telegram channel, and the bot is the place to start a personal conversation.

What actually happens here

This is not a shop or a calculator. The bot opens a chat with a person who handles purchasing. You write your request and wait for a manager to reply. The bot has no commands, and everything starts with the START button.

Grain prices move fast, so the company put them in the channel and kept the bot for the personal part: volumes, timing, delivery terms.

What to put in your first message

The more complete the information, the faster a buyer can name terms. A good first message fits in a few lines. ✍️

1. Crop. Wheat, barley, corn, sunflower or another.
2. Volume. How many tonnes are ready to ship now and how many later.
3. Quality. Moisture, test weight, foreign matter and protein content, if known.
4. Location. The district where the grain is stored and the distance to the nearest road or elevator.
5. Timing. When you need the money and when loading is possible.

What a grain price is made of

The price in an ad almost never equals what reaches your account. A buyer weighs batch quality, distance, loading method and payment term. Two offers with the same headline figure can differ greatly in the end.

Clarify the basis: price per tonne at your warehouse, at the loading point or delivered to the buyer. That decides who pays for transport. 🚜

Before the deal: check the buyer

Grain means big money, and a seller has plenty to lose. Before a truck is loaded, gather what you need.

• The contract. It should state crop, volume, quality, price, payment procedure and penalties for failure.
• Company details. Check the legal entity in open registries.
• Payment terms. Prepayment, payment on acceptance or deferred payment each carry their own risks.
• Acceptance. How and where quality is checked and who performs the analysis.

How not to lose money on deferred payment

A payment delay looks attractive: the buyer pays above the market price, but later. The risk is that if payment slips, you end up without grain and without money. ⚠️

If you accept a delay, cap the batch size, write the deadline into the contract and do not ship the next batch until the previous one is paid.

Why a messenger is convenient

A farm is busy in season, and calling in office hours is not always possible. A messenger lets you describe the offer, send a photo of a lab analysis and come back to the chat in the evening. 📱

The conversation also stays as a record of what was agreed. That helps if questions about volume or quality come up later.

What else to do

Do not stop at one buyer. Compare offers from several companies, check prices in different sources and keep records for every batch. Even a small price difference per tonne turns into a noticeable sum on large volumes.