AgriCharts and AgTrax Offer Real-Time Commodity Accounting Solutions to Agribusinesses
CHICAGO & HUTCHINSON, Kan.--(Business Wire)-- AgriCharts, the agricultural division of Barchart.com, Inc., which provides market data, website hosting and technology solutions to agribusinesses, today announced an initiative with AgTrax Technologies, the leading provider of agricultural software in the Midwest. Through their newly formed relationship, grain elevators, co-ops and other agribusinesses which use AgTrax Technologies` Commodity Accounting software can receive automatic updates of real-time market data for commodity prices including corn, soybeans and wheat to perform price sensitive grain accounting. The real-time market data originates from AgriCharts and is seamlessly integrated into AgTrax Technologies` software. With the availability of real-time market data agribusinesses will benefit from the ability to perform critical accounting functions using the latest commodity prices. This enhancement improves risk management performance, accuracy and overall efficiency for agribusinesses as the market data is automatically updated within the software. AgriCharts also provides automatic feeds of delayed and end-of-day market data as options. "With the integration of live market data into AgTrax Technologies` Commodity Accounting software, agribusinesses can ensure they have the most recent prices available to perform critical real-time accounting and valuations," said Mark Haraburda, Managing Director at Barchart and AgriCharts. "With daily volatility in the marketplace, this is a feature all grain buyers need to have at their disposal," added Haraburda. "With this new feature in our commodity accounting software, we allow our customers to integrate the markets, which have always been a factor, but the interaction was a manual process," said Jeff Jackson, President of AgTrax. "This is another accomplished goal that we set years ago and by partnering with an organization like AgriCharts we are able to integrate formerly external information into our application for the benefit of our customers." For more information, please visit www.agricharts.com and www.agtrax.com. About AgriCharts AgriCharts, a division of Barchart.com, Inc. which provides market data solutions to the futures, equity and foreign exchange markets, provides agricultural information and technology services to the agricultural industry. AgriCharts` services include website hosting and management, market data and information, website content and real-time quote services. AgriCharts goal is to provide successful market data and information solutions to meet the requirements of today`s agricultural industry. About AgTrax Technologies AgTrax Technologies provides agricultural accounting applications to local agribusinesses in 18 states across the US. Started in 1996 and located in Hutchinson, KS, AgTrax develops state-of-the-art information systems including general accounting, commodity accounting and customer relationship management. Barchart.com, Inc. / AgriCharts Mark Haraburda (312) 506-8705 haraburda@barchart.com or AgTrax Technologies Garette Long (620) 662-0482 glong@agtrax.com Copyright Business Wire 2009
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