GIWA Crop Report

9th Jun 2017

• GIWA updated their crop area estimates for the 2017 season.


• WA is expected to plant 7.95m ha; down 0.4% from the May report.


• Area estimates for June vs. May:




• Wheat: 4.88m ha, down 0.4%.


• Barley: 1.29m ha, up 0.5%.


• Canola: 1.19m ha, down 0.4%.


• Oats: 0.21m ha, down 3.7%.


• Lupins: 0.35m ha, down 0.6%.


• Field Pea: 0.031m ha, unchanged.

CBH/Plum Grove Managed Pool

31st May 2017

• CBH and Plum Grove will offer a Managed Pool product for the 2017-18 season.


• Contracting period is 6-16^th June.


• Hedging period guidelines: 35% by September, 65% by December and 90% by March.


• The pool finalisation date is May 2018.


• The cost of this pool is 3.25% (FOB).

GIWA Crop Report

15th May 2017

• GIWA updated their crop area estimates for the 2017 season.


• WA expected to plant 7.98m ha; up 5.3% from the April report.


• Oat plantings saw a large reduction in forecast hectares, down 17% from last month.


• Area estimates for May:




• Wheat: 4.9m ha, up 10%.


• Barley: 1.28m ha, up 0.9%.


• Canola: 1.2m ha, down 1%.


• Oats: 0.22m ha, down 16%.


• Lupins: 0.35m ha, down 1.5%.


• Field Pea: 0.031m ha, up 0.6%.

Flinders Barley

27th Apr 2017

• CBH has raised concerns over the varietal purity of Flinders.


• If you are growing, or about to seed Flinders, please refer to the important information released by CBH, or discuss with Intergrain.

Emerald Payment Terms

26th Apr 2017

• Emerald have changed their payment terms from 7 days end of week to 7 days from the date of transfer.


• This will come into effect from the 1^st of May 2017 and applies to all new and existing contracts.


• Any growers with 2017/18 cash contracts will have their payment terms updated to 7 days from the day of grain transfer.