Case Study: Independent Agri-Company speeds reporting and risk management with Eka

Farmer Network Moves Faster With Eka

Independent Agri-Company, an independent network of innovative farmers, technologists, and scientists, launched a crop marketing business in 2017 to give member farmers more flexibility in choosing buyers. But as the program expanded, the team’s spreadsheet-based process for collecting and analyzing trading data became too slow, taking up to three weeks, and they lacked a consolidated way to evaluate risk. They turned to Eka and its Commodity Trading and Risk Management (CTRM) platform to manage trading and risk in one system.

Eka implemented its CTRM solution in just eight weeks, centralizing farmer, producer, and buyer sales contracts, pricing, hedging, executions, and invoicing on a single platform. The result was a major productivity boost: reports that once took three weeks now take just minutes, while executive dashboards, real-time exposure views, and automated reconciliation have improved decision-making, reduced human error, and given Independent Agri-Company a more accurate, current view of business risk.