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Service Alternatives

Delta Grain, the grain marketing arm of Delta Ag provides a unique and diverse range of grain marketing solutions to grain producing clients across NSW and Queensland. Delta Grain is operated by highly skilled professionals that collectively have significant industry experience, and can provide the full spectrum of grain marketing and advisory needs.It provides a one stop marketing and advisory service for grain producers.

The business is regionally based which allows the team to better analyse the market based on first hand access to production conditions and potential available supply. Our office network is strategically located at Harden, Armidale and Lockhart in NSW and Emerald, Central Queensland

Marketing: A key function of Delta Grain is to provide grain producers with independent market access to a significant range of traders and consumers on a daily basis through its agency and brokerage agreements. As a grain broker we are acting on the growers behalf to gain the best possible price in the market place.  Delta Grain has built in excess of 40 strong procurement relationships with all the major preferred buyers over the past decade to ensure that sellers gain access to the best marketing options at all times. These buyers include major domestic traders, exporters and larger consumers.

It is also of significance that Delta Grain is not a trader and subsequently both buyers and sellers of grain can actively conduct business in the knowledge that all transactions are fully transparent and that you receive the best market value on the day.

To access the grain brokerage , you simply contact Delta Grain who will identify the best pricing opportunity on any given day. Cash contracts, target price orders, tenders and pools are utilised within this service.

Grain warehouse now dominates the harvest scene, with 90% of growers participating in this activity.  Delta Grain have developed powerful software which allows growers to submit their warehouse receipts and we can then quickly identify the best possible price matched to each grade submitted.

Delta Grain understand that payment security is an increasingly important issue, procurement relationships are only held with companies that have sound and long standing financial track records within the grain industry.

Through servicing clients across a broad area of NSW and Queensland, Delta Grain can also better match buyer demands and ensure that both parties achieve the best outcome by minimising increasingly costly freight. Deregulation of the wheat export market is also attracting new global market players to the Australian marketplace, which has undoubtedly created an expansion in the cash market and pool pricing alternatives available. Independent guidance to the best marketing tools that deliver the best outcome will be even more critical given that the Single Desk marketing System has been removed.

Given the financial squeeze on farming cash flows in recent years, the declining availability of farm labour and increasing market complexity, Delta Grain have found that our clients are finding that they have less time available to develop and implement grain marketing strategies. Delta Grain fills this void through providing a single point of contact that essentially provides a market watchdog service for clients.

Advisory & Consultancy Services: Grain and Marketing advisory services is a cornerstone of the Delta Grain division.  Delta Grain send advisory and market information to their grain clients every week of the year and often on a daily basis.  A large number of clients have found real value in our grain advisory option which is tiered to match the clients requirements.  This falls into the following three categories.

1.        Market Review: A comprehensive Daily Market Report including site based pricing for all major commodities, pertinent market commentary and general market guidance.

2.        Premium Service: Inclusive of the Market Review Service along with market alerts, seasonal and monthly outlook reports and SMS alerts.

3.        Premium Plus Advice Service: Includes all the above services along with licensed, comprehensive and individual marketing advice, assistance with strategy development and implementation, review of market position on a monthly basis and personalised priority service.

No other company provides such a diverse product range involving physical marketing, pools or risk management tools, whilst remaining totally independent in the marketplace.Importantly in the age of deregulation it is one of a only afew companies that provide a professional advisory service that is matched to the clients requirements.