CBH secures single day receivals record

In its Nov. 25 harvest report, CBH said its network took in over 620,000 tonnes of grain on Nov. 18, surpassing the previous mark of 602,000 tonnes set on Dec. 2, 2022. Daily site receival records were broken at Gairdner, Nyabing, Mount Madden, Perenjori, Merredin, York, Wickepin and Corrigin.

“This is a shared success and one that we can all be proud of as a collective WA grain industry – from the farming operations that have grown the crop, the growers and contractors harvesting and safely delivering it, and the CBH frontline employees who are efficiently receiving and storing it in the network,” said Mick Daw, chief operations officer at CBH. “If you were to line enough trucks up end to end to hold this amount of grain, you would need 12,400 50-tonne trucks, and it would stretch for 450 kilometers — the distance from Perth to Albany.”

The rain eventually brought harvest to a halt for nearly all growers, prompting CBH to close sites and services across its network, which receives and exports about 90% of Western Australia’s grain harvest. Still, CBH said it received 1.7 million tonnes across the network during the past seven days, bringing the season total to 8.91 million tonnes.