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Glencore Grain is a 100% owned subsidiary of Glencore International AG and operates across all states of Australia servicing Australia's domestic market and grain exports.

Glencore Grain has nearly 50 years of experience in trading domestic and international markets. With instant access to international market pricing, combined with domestic connections to stockfeed and flour milling end-users, Glencore Grain has a great depth of understanding of how best to maximise profits for grain growers.

About Glencore

Glencore is one of the world's largest suppliers of a wide range of commodities to industrial consumers.

Glencore and its subsidiaries process, handle and market Wheat, Corn, Barley, Rice, Oilseeds, Meals, Edible Oils and Biodiesel. We are a leading exporter of grain from the EU, Russia, the Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Argentina and Australia. Global markets, particularly on the supply side, are highly fragmented and in many countries we procure grain directly from the farmer. To support these activities our subsidiaries own or operate processing, storage and handling infrastructure.

Our subsidiaries in the UK, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, the Ukraine and Kazakhstan have seventy silos at their disposal with a combined storage capacity of 3.5 million metric tons. Of these, five are port or river elevators.

In the Ukraine, a Glencore subsidiary part owns a Sunseed crushing plant with an annual capacity of 250,000 metric tons.

A subsidiary of Glencore is owner of the Moreno Group in Argentina. Moreno’s facilities include interior silos, an export elevator in Bahia Blanca and four Sunseed/Soyabean crushing plants with a combined annual capacity of 1.85 million metric tons.

In Argentina and Uruguay, our subsidiaries own five Rice mills with a combined annual capacity of 400,000 metric tons.

In Brazil, a subsidiary of Glencore is the owner of a soyabean crushing plant with an annual capacity of 350,000 metric tons. In Australia, Paraguay, Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, Glencore farms 300,000 hectares of owned or leased land.

North Africa, the Middle East and Asia are the prime export markets. Marketing efforts and strategy are coordinated from the head office for grains in Rotterdam and implemented through our network of local offices in more than 40 countries.