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Ask a hay exporter how orders are tracked, and there is a good chance the answer involves a spreadsheet. Maybe several. One file tracks grower deliveries. Another holds the press schedule. A third lists container bookings. Somewhere in an inbox is the version that only one person knows how to update. For a while, the system works. Then an order changes. A load is rejected. A container number is entered in the wrong row. Two people update different copies of the same file. By

The U.S. hay export market had a difficult 2025. Exports slowed, China became less predictable, and high costs continued to put pressure on growers, producers, and exporters. Freight rates, water costs, labor, and buyer uncertainty all made the year harder than many expected. But the market is not closed. Demand is still there. The opportunity in 2026 is not just selling more hay. It is selling better hay, with better records, to a wider group of buyers. For U.S. growers, hay

Hay exports take a lot of people. A grower needs to know when hay is ready. A press operator needs to know what is coming in. An exporter needs to match orders, bales, containers, and documents. An overseas buyer wants updates without having to chase people for answers. Today, too much of that work still happens in spreadsheets, phone calls, text messages, and last-minute emails. CeresGrid was built to fix that. CeresGrid gives everyone in the hay export chain one shared plac