Testimonials

“CONTROL^® provides a complete accounting package meeting our needs in all 3 of our core businesses: Grain, agronomy and feed. This makes it very easy to create consistent and easy-to-read statements for our customers. CONTROL^® provides excellent grain accounting processes that allow us to track customer grain sales, open offers and deliveries to help customers make improved selling decisions. For our employee team, CONTROL^® offers a solid platform and efficient system that allows our team to better focus on customer needs and less time on I/T problems. CSS has allowed us to overall be more efficient and ensure that we have an administrative cost structure that does not work against us in a very competitive environment.”

Troy Upah
CEO
Ag Partners L.L.C., Albert City, IA

“CSS is flexibile enough to meet different user needs and business situations. I like the business alliances/partnerships that CSS has established over the last two years with other software vendors who specialized in specific areas, such as Agris crops and Scale interface with Grain Accounting.”

Randy Sprague
CFO
Harvest Land Co-op, Richmond, IN

“Software plays a part in analyzing opportunities and meeting member’s needs, It comes down to having a management information system that pulls accurate data for analysis. I remember the first system in use at Farm Service Cooperative was an in-house core package where the risk was in becoming totally dependent on one or two individual programmers.
With CSS, there is more depth and backup and more resources to develop and enhance the software.”

Keith Heim
CEO
MaxYield Cooperative, West Bend, IA

“No matter how many times I attend training with our new employees, I always learn something new.  I believe time spent in training is always saved many times over when work is accomplished in a more efficient manner”

Carol Koops
Controller
Farmers Coop Society, Sioux Center, IA

“Having a live support representative answer the phone is a great attribute of Control Systems Software, LLC. CSS staff listen and deliver solutions to the changing needs of our complex and diverse business. Five Star Co-op appreciates the opportunity to give input on software enhancements. Training is a key to making CONTROL^® Software work for us.”

Ron Pumphrey
General Manager
Five Star Co-op, New Hampton, IA

“We have gained customers because of our use of the CONTROL^® accounting package. Our customers tell us the Settlements are as good as they have seen and better than most. CONTROL^® is understandable to our customers. Help is there whenever we need it—just a phone call away. The training provided by CSS has been good.”

Roger Miller
General Manager
Premiere Cooperative, Tolono, IL

“CSS has done a great job building relationships with other vendors and integrating products such as oneWeigh™ into the system. If you have a specific need not in the system, chances are there is an Integration piece available or CSS will custom build for you. I am a firm believer in not recreating the wheel. It is not often that a company will stay with one software package as long as we have. CONTROL^® is the only program we have not switched in the 10 years I have been here.”

Brian Gates
IT Director
Heart of Iowa Co-op, Roland, IA

“Control Systems Software allows our companies to manage and integrate data for the life cycle of all the various business transactions we perform daily for both our customers and our vendors. Integrating data, through the QUOTE^® program brings commodity values to the contracting and settlement function giving us superior centralized risk management across all company locations.
CONTROL^® has helped us achieve our goal of making accounting technology efficient. We have a powerful software system. While we are out front taking care of the customer, the accounting system takes care of itself in the background.”

Doug Courtney
Controller
Ray-Carroll County Grain, Richmond, MO

“I first learned how to settle grain with a pencil, an in-sheet, and a calculator. I wrote spreadsheet applications to settle grain and then had to learn how to protect the logic inside the spreadsheet from people who did not know how to run the spreadsheet I built.
I can't imagine going back to doing things the way we used to when I think about the things we have now: live quotes thru the AS400, offer contracts that trip automatically, scale interfaces, tank masters, term billing, 10 years of sales history at your fingertips, web interfacing, micro emulation, email and especially the ability to generate queries and easily download CONTROL^® data into spreadsheets. I am excited as we move forward with web based applications, discussions on how to improve customer relationship management offerings, and continued improvement to the system.”

Rick Vaughan
General Manager
Prairie Land Cooperative, Hubbard, IA

“The simple fact about CSS is that the customer service level is second to none. The cost position is extremely competitive in the Market. The key for Stratton is that CONTROL^® is so flexible - we can get features customized to our needs in a timely fashion - no one else in the industry has that same quality.”

Dan Slinger
General Manager
Stratton Equity Co-op, Stratton, CO

“Our accounting system has been so efficient that I don’t worry at our Year End because I can provide the auditors with everything they need. They can get everything done in just two weeks and, according to them, that is outstanding.”

Linda Berg
Office Manager
Battle Creek Farmers Co-op., Battle Creek, NE