Warehouse Information

Warehousing allows growers to store a commodity in their own name at a Viterra storage and handling site. This means growers can defer a decision on the sale of the commodity or outturn the commodity for their use. For fees and other information, please refer to the 2011/12 Warehousing Storage and Handling Charges and 2011/12 Receival and Warehousing Terms & Conditions below.

Warehousing Benefits for Growers:

  • Option to defer and maximise marketing decisions
  • Ability to view deliveries and transfer grain via the ezigrain website
  • Reduced reliance on on-farm storage facilities
  • Avoidance of on-farm pesticide costs
  • Potential to obtain better freight rates due to outturn from Viterra facilities
  • Viterra provides quality storage and professional expertise in storage hygiene
  • Commodities are received by Viterra to acceptable industry standards
  • Safe and secure storage of commodities

How to Warehouse

Warehouse deliveries must be delivered on a NGR grower card. Growers delivering into a warehouse are bound by Viterra's 2011/12 Warehousing Terms & Conditions - outlined in Viterra harvest packs.

Warehousing is available at most sites and terminals for most bin grades. Warehoused receivals may be limited if the storage units allocated for particular bin grades fill during harvest, and where storage units may be restricted to approved buyers.

Transferring Ownership of a Warehoused Commodity

After growers arrange the sale of all or part of their warehoused stock to a marketer, they can transfer their grain by contacting the Viterra Service Centre on 1800 018 205 or by using ezigrain. All transfers require approval from the marketer.

NOTE: Viterra cannot control how quickly marketers respond to transfer requests, but we undertake to pass on the transfer request within 24 hours. Where a marketer is slow to respond, Viterra will follow up and try to accelerate the process.

The Service Centre requires the following information for ownership transfers:

  • NGR registration number
  • Buyer name and contract number
  • Commodity and individual weighnotes to be transferred

Warehousers will then be issued with an order number over the phone that confirms the order is pending. They must retain and quote this number for any enquiries relating to the transfer, and the number will appear on a confirmation letter to the grower when the transfer has been processed.

If warehousers conduct their transfer through the ezigrain website they are required to provide the same information as outlined for Viterra Service Centre transfers, and they can contact the Service Centre if they have any problems with the online process.

NOTE: Transfers are on SHRUNK tonnage but grower payments should be based on UNSHRUNK tonnage. Growers should confirmed this with their buyer.

Shrinkage applies to all commodities received, levied at 0.6 per cent per tonne for cereals and oilseeds, and 0.85 per cent per tonne for pulses. Domestic outturns are outturned as shrunk tonnage. Domestic outturn conditions can be confirmed in the warehousing terms and conditions, and conditions of restrictions apply.

To arrange the outturn of a warehoused commodity, growers should contact the site (or the applicable Business Centre) where the stock is held. At least one full working day's notice of an impending outturn is generally required.

Growers who outturn grain in their own name will be invoiced for the receival fee and any other applicable storage and handling charges.