Carpendale Agri Pty Ltd

Carpendale Agri at Goondiwindi presents as a vertically integrated grain business built around three closely linked functions: grain storage and handling, transport logistics, and broadacre farming. On its own website, the business describes the Goondiwindi site as a local grain production, storage, packing and logistics operation in the heart of a wheat, barley and sorghum district, with services designed for both its own production and third-party grain.

The Goondiwindi location is clearly the operational centre of the business. Carpendale lists its address as 18833 Gore Highway, Goondiwindi QLD 4390, and the site is positioned as a practical accumulation and service point for growers, carriers and grain customers moving product through southern inland Queensland. The company emphasises the site’s logistics advantage, saying its Goondiwindi position supports efficient access toward Brisbane and other key markets.

Storage is the core of the site’s public offering. Carpendale states that the Goondiwindi complex has 170,000 tonnes of storage capacity, and that it provides straightforward storage and handling options backed by booking systems, storage agreements and on-site buyer access. The company also says the site handled 136,800.44 metric tonnes during the 2024/25 season, a figure it uses to illustrate both the size of the harvest and the throughput of the facility.

What makes the operation particularly relevant in the grain supply chain is that it is not just a static storage site. Carpendale describes the business as being able to receive, store and export grain for both the company and third-party customers, while also offering container packing and access to transport coordination. The homepage further says the facility is a certified site for packing and export to major markets including China, which points to a business aimed at more than simple harvest overflow storage.

Transport is another major part of the Goondiwindi operation. Carpendale says it no longer runs its own truck fleet, but instead manages an extensive subcontractor network through an in-house transport allocator. Publicly, the transport service is framed around moving grain to market and delivering fertiliser back to farm, including the coordination of backloads to improve freight efficiency. For growers and grain owners around Goondiwindi, that makes the site relevant not only at harvest but across the broader crop-input and grain-outloading cycle.

The farming side of the business also matters because it shapes how the site appears to operate. Carpendale says its roots are in the paddock and that it continues to farm extensively in the Goondiwindi region. Its company profile states that the broader business now spans 10,700 hectares and produces around 20,000 metric tonnes annually of wheat, barley, sorghum and chickpeas in rotation. That mix fits the district well and helps explain why the Goondiwindi site is especially relevant to northern-grain-belt cereal and pulse flows rather than to a narrow single-commodity niche.

There is also a broader ownership and business-history story behind the current operation. Carpendale says it began as a family-owned farming operation and entered a new phase in 2022 when it became owned by Laguna Bay, an Australian agricultural asset manager. ABN records show CARPENDALE AGRI PTY LTD as an active company from 6 April 2021, with the business name having previously been GUNDY GRAINS PTY LTD before changing to Carpendale Agri Pty Ltd in December 2021.

For the local area, the site appears to serve several useful roles at once: a harvest receival and storage point, a grain marketing and packing platform, a public weighbridge location, and a freight coordination base. Its public weighbridge service is available Monday to Friday, 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM, with extended flexibility noted during harvest. Taken together, the Goondiwindi operation reads as a modern private grain complex designed to support both farmgate practicality and onward market access.