Week ending Sunday 19 October 2025 report

Harvest in South Australia has officially kicked off, after we received our first delivery for the 2025/26 season with a load of lentils delivered to our Thevenard site on Monday 13 October.

On Thursday our Arno Bay site also welcomed its first delivery for the harvest, a load of barley.

A total of 1100 tonnes of barley and lentils were delivered to the two sites for the week.

Bunge’s Director of Industrial Management, Gavin Cavanagh, says the milestone signals a positive start to a more favourable season than last year for most farmers across South Australia and western Victoria.

“Crop production for South Australia and Victoria is expected to be close to average, at around 9 million tonnes produced in each state, which is a good result given the record dry start to the year and the smaller 2024/25 harvest,” Gavin says.

“However we recognise that some areas, including parts of the Murray Mallee, are unfortunately expecting lower production than average. Our focus is on ensuring those farmers receive the support and service they require with segregations and opening hours.”

We have completed our annual investment programme into our South Australian and western Victorian network, spending $65 million to enhance efficiency, reliability and improve the delivery experience for farmers.

This includes four new drive-over hopper stackers across the Bunge network, a second inwards weighbridge at Tailem Bend, and an additional classification office at Wudinna to support lentil deliveries. Structural upgrades have been made to bunkers at the Wallaroo, Snowtown, Werrimull, Kimba, Lock, Cummins and Wudinna sites. At Port Giles, upgraded bunkers also provide additional storage capacity. In addition, we completed roadworks and upgraded existing infrastructure across several sites, such as shed sealing at Keith. All these network improvements will help ensure a sustainable and efficient network in the long term.

The Bunge team across Australia is ready to receive deliveries and support farmers through another season. We have also started welcoming 1,500 harvest workers to prepare for another busy season.

With more than 6 million tonnes of forward shipping capacity already booked, Bunge is seeing strong buyer demand for new season grain across its network.

“Heading into harvest with strong forward demand gives our farmer customers confidence that buyers are ready to purchase their grain when they deliver it to us,” Gavin says.

The Bunge combination with Viterra was successfully closed on 2 July, bringing together two highly complementary businesses to create a premier agribusiness solutions company.

In Australia, we have 55 storage and handling sites and six port terminals across South Australia and western Victoria; three storage and handling sites, including a port terminal in southern Western Australia, two import facilities in Victoria and New South Wales; and eight offices spread across the country in key growing regions.

Following the combination of Bunge and Viterra, we are continuing to transition to the Bunge name and brand. For the coming harvest, the viterra.com.au website is the place to find information about delivering to Bunge’s South Australian and western Victorian sites.

Our app has been updated from Viterra Australia to Bunge Australia with an updated design and new features based on farmers’ feedback.

Disclaimer
* This data is subject to variation due to individual site operations and the timing of reports.
** The total 2025/26 data includes grain received into Viterra’s storage and handling network since 13 October 2025.