Version 2, interim terms in force from 2026-08-12, pending final legal review
You are the seller of the hay. You stand behind how it is described, that the lab report is real and from this lot, that the lot loaded is the lot documented, and that it is delivered as booked. You may withdraw a listing while no buyer has been charged; after the cutoff, withdrawal goes through AgBid. AgBid runs the platform, the ledger and the freight; it is not the seller.
**Grower Pool Terms**
*Version 2. Interim terms in force pending final legal review. A counsel-reviewed version will replace this one, and you will be asked to accept the update.*
By accepting these terms when you set up your farm on AgBid, and by
reaffirming them each time you list hay for a Pool, you ("Grower")
acknowledge and accept the following for every hay Pool you list.
These are separate from, and in addition to, any per-lot attestation
you make when you list or confirm a specific Pool.
1. **You are the seller.** AgBid operates the platform, the payment
rails, the ledger, the freight arrangement and the mediation
process. The hay in a Pool is sold by you to the buyers on that
Pool. AgBid is not the seller and gives no warranty on your hay.
2. **The description is yours and it is accurate.** The hay type,
cutting, bale format, declared bale weight, quantity and lot id
you enter are true to the hay. The photographs you upload are of
the actual lot being offered, not of other hay or a past cutting.
3. **The lab report is real and it is this lot's.** Any forage
analysis you publish comes from a composite genuinely pulled from
the lot offered, run by the laboratory you name, and the document
you attach is that laboratory's actual report. You will not
publish figures you cannot support with the attached report, and
you understand buyers commit money against those figures.
4. **Weeds, foreign material and contamination.** A laboratory
nutrient panel does not test for weeds, foreign objects, mould in
an individual bale, or animal remains baled in the field. To the
best of your knowledge from your own inspection, the lot is free
of noxious weeds, foreign material, visible mould and animal
remains. That representation is yours, not the lab's and not
AgBid's.
5. **Feed safety and licensing.** You comply with the state and
federal requirements that apply to selling and transporting the
feed you list, including any licensing, food-safety and record
keeping obligations that apply to your operation.
6. **Lot integrity.** The hay you load and ship is the same lot that
was documented, graded and attested. Once buyers have committed
against a lot you will not substitute a different lot for it.
7. **Weight and count.** The bales delivered match the count and the
declared per-bale weight within normal agricultural variation. The
certified scale ticket, not the listing estimate, is the number
that settles a weight question, and you agree to provide it.
8. **Confirmation and delivery.** When a Pool reaches its fill bar
and you confirm it, you are committing to make the lot available
for the booked freight on the agreed date. If you ship below the
fill bar, buyers still pay the fixed lane items priced at the
fill bar, and the unpaid remainder is yours to absorb. This is
computed for you on the ledger and shown as a grower shortfall.
9. **Withdrawing a listing.** On AgBid, deletion is withdrawal: the
record survives for lot traceability, and what you may do depends
on whose money is exposed.
(a) Before a Pool opens on your listing, you may withdraw it at
any time, instantly and without penalty.
(b) While a Pool is forming and no buyer has committed, you may
pull the listing yourself and the Pool closes.
(c) While a Pool is forming and buyers have committed, you may
still withdraw up to the Pool's cutoff. No buyer has been charged
at that point; every committed buyer's payment authorization is
released and each buyer is notified that you withdrew. The
withdrawal is recorded against your account, and a pattern of
withdrawing Pools that buyers had committed to can lead to AgBid
pausing your ability to post.
(d) After the cutoff, the truck is booked against the committed
weight and you may no longer withdraw on your own. Contact AgBid,
and your confirmation and delivery obligations in section 8
continue to apply.
(e) After you confirm a Pool, buyers have been charged and
withdrawal is no longer available. Anything from that point is a
cancellation, resolved through AgBid's mediation with the
lot-traced records and the ledger as evidence.
10. **Your price, and pass-through freight.** Your price per bale is
what you receive. AgBid adds its fee on the buyer's side and takes
nothing out of your number, and nothing at all from the freight
line. Freight is passed to buyers at exactly the carrier's quote.
11. **Regulated label terms.** You will not describe hay using a
regulated certification or label term that AgBid has not enabled
for use on the platform. If a program you are certified under is
not yet live on AgBid, do not reference it in a listing or in
notes to buyers.
12. **Your liability.** You are responsible for the hay and for
claims that trace to the lot: misdescription, contamination,
short weight, or delivery of a lot other than the one documented.
Such claims are resolved through AgBid's mediation, with the
lot-traced records and the ledger as evidence.
13. **Your indemnity.** You agree to hold AgBid harmless from claims
brought by buyers or third parties arising out of the condition
or description of hay you sold, or your own acts or omissions in
producing, storing, loading or representing it.
14. **Limitation.** To the extent permitted by law, AgBid's
liability to you arising out of a Pool is limited to the AgBid
fees collected on that Pool. AgBid is not liable for indirect or
consequential losses, including lost sales, spoilage, or the cost
of hay you could not move.
15. **Nothing here removes your legal rights.** Where the law of
your jurisdiction gives you rights that cannot be waived by
agreement, those rights are unaffected by anything above.