Because of its rapid growth, Moreland Grain & Seed Co., Moreland, ID, installed Vertical Softwares (VSI) GrainTrac and ScaleTrac software programs in January 2010. Merchandiser Ken Morgan says the elevator handled 200,000 bushels of soft white wheat in 1997, when it was founded. This year, its grain volume totaled 3 million bushels. "We'd grown so much in 14 years that we needed to upgrade our system, especially during harvest, when it was really chaotic," Morgan says. "In our old system, we had to enter everything manually. That cost us a lot of extra time, because we were working on each ticket three or four times. There also was an increased risk of mistakes and errors."
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