Slower grain and oilseed deliveries and final weekly progress updates indicate that Australia's 2025-26 harvest is drawing to a close, as cumulative receivals across the country's major networks approach 39mn t.
Grain receivals into the Western Australia (WA)-based CBH Group reached 24.1mn t as of 18 January, with only a small number of deliveries continuing to enter the network, the co-operative said 19 January. Total receivals represent more than 90pc of the state's 26.6mn t winter crop estimated by the Grain Industry Association of Western Australia.
South Australia (SA)-based Bunge issued its final harvest update last week. The firm has taken 5.3mn t of grains, oilseed and pulses into its network as of 4 January. Receivals are more than 2.1mn t higher than at the same point a year earlier due to better seasonal conditions. Drought weighed heavily on the state's 2024-25 winter crop production.
GrainCorp, based on the east coast, received 9.3mn t as of 5 January across its sites in Queensland, New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria, a 17pc decline from the 10.9mn t it received around the same time last season. Total receivals reached 13.3mn t in the financial year ending 30 September 2025, according to GrainCorp.
Growers keeping grain on farm and a slightly smaller winter crop in the eastern states, as estimated by the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (Abares), likely contributed to lower volumes entering the network so far this harvest.
The total volume received from the approximate start of harvest reached 37.8mn t across the three major bulk handlers, and more than half of Australia's 66mn t winter crop output as estimated by Abares.
Australian wheat export prices have resisted harvest pressure despite the large crop, partly on account of slow grower selling and tight capacity early in the October-September marketing year.
