Emerald

Australia’s leading independent grain marketer.  Australian owned and operated, Emerald work with grower customers to develop grain marketing and risk management solutions that maximise returns and minimise risk.  To find out more about Emerald click on the Emerald logo.

Southern Quality Co-operative

An established grower-owned agricultural co-operative based in Ballarat.  The membership of the co-operative has grown steadily since inception in 2001.  The charter of the Co-operative is to provide a variety of grain-marketing and related services to its members.

GrainSearch  

GrainSearch seeks out, through the latest R&D techniques, new varieties of seed that significantly improve the productivity of shareholders, farming businesses and agricultural enterprises.

Initially formed in 2002 by a small group of innovative grain growers, GrainSearch has now grown to over 200 grower-based shareholders. These growers identified the availability and potential of alternative wheat and barley germplasm that had the genetic capability to significantly improve the returns to growers in South West Victoria.

The capabilities of GrainSearch have developed since its inception, which has enabled it to attract other wheat and barley germplasm into its evaluation portfolio. More recently, GrainSearch has successfully gained the licence to evaluate and commercialise New Farm Crop varieties (Europe's leading barley breeding program), the AUSGRAINZ durum and winter wheat program, and a number of novel lines from LongReach Plant Breeders.