AGT Foods Australia’s site at Kadina, SA, is on the market.

IN RECENT grain-handling listings, AGT Foods has listed its Kadina facility in South Australia, and a site at Maryvale site in Central West NSW is on the market.

AGT Foods lists Kadina site

AGT Foods Australia is offloading its Kadina grain storage and cropping facility, located in South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula.

Priced at $3.3 million plus GST, the 40ha site features extensive infrastructure currently in use alongside 31ha of arable cropping land.

The facility has a grain-storage capacity estimated at 15,400 tonnes across three hard-floor sheds and two silos.

Accompanying infrastructure includes a weighbridge and overhead office; office building with reception, four offices, toilets, lunchroom and telecommunications room; and container storage and workshop.

The adjacent arable land has recently been cropped, and features predominantly loam over clay soil types receiving an average annual rainfall of 355mm.

Wardle Co Real Estate’s Brenton Bird and Nathan Collins are handling the listing.

Mr Bird said the facility’s proximity to grain export terminals made it an excellent opportunity for many prospective buyers.

“It’s on the Copper Coast Highway which has grain access…one way to Wallaroo or you can go Port of Adelaide,” Mr Bird said.

The closest of these, the Wallaroo grain and port facilities, is within 16km of the Kadina site.

Mr Bird said the facility would appeal to a broad mix of buyers across the grains sector and wider agricultural industries.

“There could be a consortium of farmers who could buy it to store their grain off-farm.

“People in fertilisers could come in there and look at it to store urea and other stuff.

“A grain packaging plant could change it from storage to putting it into containers.

“There are a lot of different uses for it.”

AGT Foods Australia is the domestic arm of Canadian-based AGT Foods, a leading global supplier of value-added pulses, staple foods and food ingredients.

Headquartered in Toowoomba, the company also has pulse-processing sites at Horsham in Victoria and Bowmans in SA’s Mid North region.

The listing comes about five months after AGT Foods sold its Narrabri storage and handling site to logistics firm Qube for circa $7M.

AGT Foods was contacted for comment.

Maryvale grain storage comes to market

There has been good early interest in a 28,000t grain storage and handling facility that has come to market at Maryvale, in central New South Wales.

Owned by a local farmer, the 2.78-hectare property features heavy-duty concrete and steel silos, and conveyor and elevator systems, alongside multiple support structures, such as sample and storage sheds, an amenities block, and water storage.

Off the Mitchell Highway and between Dubbo, Wellington and Mudgee, the site is in a highly productive summer and winter-cropping area.

Elders Commercial Dubbo’s Joseph Walkom and branch manager Anthony Chapman are handling the campaign via an expressions-of-interest process closing September 24.

Mr Chapman said while the facility was not currently being used to store grain, the infrastructure and machinery were fully serviced and in good condition.

“Someone could literally drive in and start dumping grain in there,” Mr Chapman said.

“It’s very much serviceable.”

He said they had already fielded several inquiries for the site.

Mr Chapman said the site would be ideal for a variety of use cases, including for existing and new entrant grain traders, domestic processors and grains growers requiring off-farm storage.

He said demand for both on- and off-farm grain storage was growing in NSW, with the Maryvale site providing scalable infrastructure to meet it.

The Maryvale site is available on a variety of terms from an outright sale to long-term lease and lease-to-purchase.

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