Our Services – Grain Marketing

Grain Marketing goes a long way to justifying our slogan, ‘Partner with Planfarm’.

For many farmers grain marketing is one of the most difficult parts of the business. Volatile markets combined with variable seasons can create a lot of stress, risk and work. It can a be a huge distraction from what farmers would rather being focussing on like growing crops and enjoying some downtime.

By ‘partnering with Planfarm’ we aim to eliminate all of these negative factors, take advantage of opportunities and provide our proven expertise to ensure that we get the very best results for your business, irrespective of market and seasonal forces. We maximise returns from grain sales while keeping production risk, price risk and financial stress within pre-determined thresholds, which provides you with an unparalleled degree of peace-of-mind. You retain complete control and visibility throughout the marketing process but without having to do all the leg work.

Whilst no company can guarantee the top of the market, by using the proven Planfarm processes and elite strategies and products, what we can guarantee is consistently good results.

We will provide significant financial benefit to you via:

• Market analysis and price discovery
• Parcelling and brokerage of grain
• Swaps management and execution
• Grain optimisation and contract nominations

There are also many non-monetary benefits that Planfarm extends to clients, such as creating and implementing a tailored marketing strategy, real-time monitoring of sales and production levels, administration and benchmarking results against industry standards as well as providing a critical second opinion to help take the emotion out of what is often an emotionally charged business decision.

Clients of our Grain Marketing services also receive additional insights from our complimentary Landline newsletters and access to the Herbicide Guide app.

We partnered with Planfarm in 2007 and introduced on-farm business planning processes that have resulted in continual growth in profitability and equity, allowing us to participate on off-farm investments that provide income without effort. Planfarm’s guidance is ongoing and our current focus is succession planning for the farm and family’s long term benefit.

– Wayne and Deb Smith