Postharvest programme

Western Australia

We offer postharvest delivery options at our Bunbury port for delivering with or without a contract.

We receive all deliveries after harvest under our postharvest procedure, outlined below.

Delivering postharvest under a contract:

1. Contact our accumulation team on 1300 453 626 for delivery options and pricing. 
2. Contract your on-farm grain for delivery at a later date. Ensure you understand and can meet Bunge’s contract terms, including delivering at buyer’s call. 
3. Bunge will call upon the grain ahead of the nominated delivery period.
4. Book in your delivery at Bunbury within the delivery period by calling Logistics Officer, Halle Baker on 0455 980 979. Provide information including your NGR, contact details, commodity, variety, carrier details and chemicals applied. 
5. Complete a grain delivery document (GDD) to present when you deliver. Please note, you must complete a new GDD for each load.
6. Deliver your grain to port at the time you agreed.
7. Bunge will receive your grain and conduct food safety and quality testing. 
8. Check your ticket before leaving site to ensure all details are correct.

Delivering postharvest without a contract:

1. Contact our accumulation team on 1300 453 626 for available delivery windows.
2. Book in your delivery at Bunbury within the available delivery period by calling Logistics Officer, Halle Baker on 0455 980 979. Provide information including your NGR, contact details, commodity, variety, carrier details and chemicals applied. 
3. Complete a grain delivery document (GDD) to present when you deliver. Please note, you must complete a new GDD for each load.
4. Deliver your grain to port at the time you agreed.
5. Bunge will receive your grain and conduct food safety and quality testing. 
6. Check your ticket before leaving site to ensure all details are correct.
7. Delivered tonnes will appear in your warehouse to sell later. For pricing and contract options, contact the accumulation team on 1300 453 626.

Postharvest food safety and quality testing

In line with our food safety and quality management processes, we will continue to conduct testing which includes:

• classifying all farmer loads on delivery to determine the grade
• conducting postdelivery chemical residue testing on all deliveries after we have received it. If results breach Australian MRLs the farmer may be liable for the contaminated stock.

If a nil tolerance contaminant is detected at any point through the receival process the load will be rejected.

Farmers can choose to provide a sample for indicative classification and/or chemical residue testing prior to delivering. If you would like predelivery testing, we ask you to plan this in advance as chemical residue results can take up to ten business days once the sample is received.