National Industry Bodies & Core Sector Organisations
Grains Australia — the best central link for trade and market access, classification, market insights, market education, and commodity councils including pulses.
GRDC (Grains Research and Development Corporation) — national RD&E body for Australian grain growers, with research investments, updates, publications and events.
Grain Growers — national grower organisation focused on advocacy, policy, capacity building and freight/supply chain priorities.
Grain Producers Australia (GPA) — national representative body for broadacre grain, pulse and oilseed producers.
Grain Trade Australia (GTA) — the commercial grain industry’s main standards/contracts/trade-rules body; essential for traders, brokers and marketers.
AEGIC — still valuable for technical grain resources, customer education and lab-related material, but treat it as a legacy resource while Grains Australia becomes the current hub.
Australian Oilseeds Federation (AOF) — the main national oilseeds body; useful for standards, variety listings and technical information for canola/sunflower/soybean supply chains.
GIWA (Grain Industry Association of Western Australia) — strong WA whole-of-value-chain association, useful for exporters, handlers, marketers and WA grower-facing industry information.
Grain Producers SA — South Australian grower representative body.
WAFarmers Grains Council — useful for WA-specific grower policy and grain industry issues.
AgForce Grains — Queensland-specific grains advocacy and supply-chain issues.
NSW Farmers Grain Growers — NSW-specific grower representation.
Government, Export, Compliance & Regulation
DAFF Export — the main federal export entry point for agricultural exporters.
Exporting plants and plant products: step-by-step guide — especially useful for new grain and pulse exporters.
Plant Export Operations Manual (PEOM) — core operational reference for export inspection/certification of grain and plant products.
MICoR Plants — importing-country requirements database; vital for exporters checking destination-market rules.
ABARES Australian Crop Report — official crop production forecasts for major winter and summer broadacre crops.
ABARES weekly commodity price update / Australian agricultural prices — useful for benchmark price tracking.
ACCC Wheat Port Code of Conduct — important for exporters and port users needing fair-access rules for bulk wheat terminals.
DAFF levy and export charge rates — useful for growers, handlers and exporters checking current levy settings.
DAFF grain levy page — more specific page for coarse grains, grain legumes, oilseeds and wheat.
APVMA permits / PubCRIS / product search — essential for chemical registrations, permits and label/use checks.
Plant Health Australia — useful for grains biosecurity planning and industry preparedness.
Bureau of Meteorology drought and climate-risk pages — helpful for seasonal risk monitoring and farm planning.
Export Market Development & Market-Access Resources
Grains Australia – Trade & Market Access — current national hub for market access priorities and industry-government coordination.
Grains Australia – Market Insights & Education — useful for trade-facing insights and commodity resources.
Grains Australia – Publications — good place to surface reports for exporters and traders, including current market-access work.
Austrade – Grains, pulses & feed — national export-promotion landing page for the sector.
Go Global Toolkit / export.business.gov.au – grains, pulses and feed — practical export-readiness content and market-entry guidance.
Austrade market-insight pages by country — useful if you want a section like “export opportunities by destination market” for India, Indonesia, UAE, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Vietnam and others.
Research, Agronomy, Varieties & Classification
NVT (National Variety Trials) — key independent source for variety decisions, disease ratings and local trial data.
NVT Crop Sowing Guides — practical, yearly guides growers and advisers actually use.
Grains Australia – Classification — core classification framework for Australian grain commodities.
Grains Australia – Wheat Classes — helpful for milling/export-facing users needing class definitions and variety context.
Grains Australia – Pulses — current national pulse commodity page.
Grains Australia – Pulse Council — useful for current pulse-industry governance/priorities.
Agriculture Victoria – Grains, pulses and cereals — strong government agronomy/resource hub, especially for pulse production and disease material.
Agriculture Victoria – Pulse Disease Guide — very useful pulse-specific disease reference.
NSW DPI Grain Quality Group — valuable for grain quality, research and technical capability.
WA DPIRD – Lupins — worth including for pulse users because WA remains especially important in lupins.
InterGrain — major Australian cereal breeding company for wheat, barley and oats.
Australian Grain Technologies (AGT) — major Australian plant breeding company, especially strong in wheat genetics.
Trading, Brokerage, Price Discovery & Digital Platforms
National Grower Register (NGR) — foundational industry service for grower records, payments and trade administration.
NGR ISCC / sustainability declarations — useful for canola sustainability and trade compliance workflows.
Grain Market — independent market-intelligence and grain-marketing platform.
Clear Grain Exchange (CGX) — independent exchange for grain buying and selling.
Grain Marketplace — another price-discovery / trading platform for Australian grain sellers and buyers.
AgriDigital — major digital grain and agri-commodity management platform.
Grain Brokers Australia — independent grain marketing and brokerage service.
PB Agrifood — specialist trader in grains, seeds and pulses, especially useful on the pulse/coarse-grain side.
Elders grain selling / CGX access — useful for growers wanting a familiar adviser/channel into CGX.
GrainCorp CropConnect — east-coast marketplace and delivery-management platform used widely by growers and buyers.
Bulk Handlers, Storage, Ports, Exporters & Major Commercial Operators
GrainCorp Grains — major east-coast grain network for growers, buyers, ports, road freight and labs.
GrainCorp – For Growers — good direct grower entry page.
GrainCorp – For Buyers — good buyer/trader-facing page.
CBH – Storage services — major bulk handling/storage resource, especially important in WA.
CBH – Grain quality / Australian Grains Centre — useful for quality services and sample/lab-related needs.
GrainFlow — east-coast and SA storage/handling network with 16 centres.
Riordan Group / Riordan Grain Services — integrated grain marketing, storage and transport business, especially relevant in Victoria.
T-Ports — useful for South Australian growers/exporters needing an alternative export pathway and terminal information.
Bunge Australia — large buyer/exporter of grains, oilseeds and pulses, with grower marketing resources.
Cargill Australia — strong commercial link for growers and marketers, including grain prices, grower tools and GrainFlow connections.
Louis Dreyfus Company Australia (LDC) — long-established Australian operator in grains, oilseeds and pulses.
ADM Australia — relevant multinational trading presence; ADM’s Asia-Pacific locations page lists grain trading in Adelaide.
Manildra Group — important value-added wheat processor/exporter and logistics operator.
Transport, Freight & Logistics
Qube Agri — major provider of bulk/containerised rail and road services, packing, processing and export support.
Qube infrastructure / Quattro / NAT — useful for NSW terminal and integrated-logistics users.
Aurizon Bulk — national bulk freight operator moving grain and fertiliser among other commodities.
Pacific National Bulk Freight — useful national rail-freight option, with grain and agriculture highlighted on its bulk page.
GrainCorp Road Freight — practical link for freight bookings into GrainCorp ports/country locations.
GrainGrowers National Grain Freight Strategy — not a freight operator, but a very useful strategy/resource page for supply-chain context and infrastructure priorities.
Testing, inspection, grading and laboratory services
AEGIC lab testing — useful for technical grain and food analysis, especially export/quality-focused users.
CBH Australian Grains Centre — NATA-accredited lab capability for WA grain quality analysis.
GrainCorp laboratories — harvest QA labs supporting east-coast receival sites and ports.
NSW DPI Grain Quality Group — relevant for grain quality assessment and technical capability.
SGS agricultural commodities testing / on-site grading — useful for independent testing, inspection and grading support.
Intertek agriculture testing and inspection — strong option for grains/feedstuffs inspection and testing.
Mérieux NutriSciences AQ – Seed & Grain Testing & Inspection — useful for seed/grain testing and inspection work.