Our History

GrainCorp was founded in 1916, and was originally part of the NSW Government’s Department of Agriculture.

GrainCorp led the development of Australia’s bulk grain handling system. Our first bulk grain elevator was built at Peak Hill, NSW, in 1918, and Australia’s first bulk grain export terminal was located in Sydney and was commissioned in 1922.

In 1992 GrainCorp became one of the first Government organisations in Australia to be privatised, and in 1996 was the first Australian bulk handler to trade grain in the Australian domestic market.

GrainCorp was listed on the Australian Stock Exchange in 1998, and acquired Victorian based Vicgrain in 2000, Allied Mills in a joint venture with Cargill Australia in 2002 and Queensland based Grainco in 2003.

Our Grain Storage, Logistics, and Ports Network

GrainCorp operates at all points along the grain supply chain, from country storage sites, through to export terminals and supplying grain to the domestic market.

GrainCorp has more than 250 country elevators with a total grain storage capacity of up to 20 million tonnes, spread across a 2,700 km footprint, from Mackay in Queensland, to Portland in Victoria.

We operate seven bulk grain export terminals that are serviced by 17 contracted trains with the capability of hauling up to three million tonnes of grain annually. GrainCorp also manages more than one million tonnes of road transport each year.

GrainCorp ports elevate an average of five million tonnes of grain, and up to 1.5 million tonnes of non-grain commodities per year.

Allied Mills

GrainCorp owns 60% of Allied Mills, Australia’s largest supplier of flour and bakery pre-mixes to hot bread shops, in-store supermarket bakeries and the industrial food service sector.

Allied operates flour mills in all states, a pre-mix plant in Sydney, and a specialty dough factory at Yatala in Queensland that produces frozen dough products for the food service and retail sectors.

Grain Corp Malt

GrainCorp is now the fourth largest commercial malt producer in the world, with operations in Canada (Canada Malting Company), the United States (Great Western Malting), the United Kingdom (Bairds Malt) and Australia (Barrett Burston Malting).