Aberdeen Grain membership can help decrease costs, ease harvest pressures and improve marketing returns.

Benefits include:

Guaranteed collection from farm within 3 days

By collecting quickly from farm, Aberdeen Grain members no longer have to make decisions on how to handle harvested crop nor do they have the added expense of conditioning grain. No extra handling is required before movement.

Improved market prices

In order to realise the true value of crops, we have to be able to present a guaranteed quantity of known specification and provenance to the consumer not at harvest but throughout the year.  A collective approach gives us this scope.

Professional marketing

Openfield, the farmer owned cooperative, handles around 4 million tonnes of grain a year and market the grain on behalf of Aberdeen Grain members. They currently market around 1 million tonnes per annum through a strategic network of central stores. Building on this, our central store members can begin to realise significant leverage in the marketplace.

Easy management at harvest

With an intake capacity of 200tph, we can guarantee a collection from farm within two to three days of harvest. Our average turnaround time on site for Malting Barley was 29 minutes this harvest. Every Aberdeen Grain member knows which commodity is moving and when.

Access to state of the art drying and storing facilities

Aberdeen Grain members own their own large scale drying plant which, through scale, is drying wet grain at much lower cost than on farm drying.

Reduced marketing and storage risks

Experienced staff make sure the product is right from intake, through the storage period right through to delivery of product to consumer.

Drying and dressing charged at cost

Unlike a commercial storage facility that runs to make profit off each load, Aberdeen Grain is a farmer co-op meaning that all profits from the business are returned to you. This means that we only charge you at cost for dressing and drying.