AUSTRALIA'S largest wheatgrower, Ron Greentree, has been given the go ahead to export wheat from his own northern NSW properties - a first under the new deregulated marketing arrangements.
Wheat Exports Australia (WEA) announced the accreditation of Greentree Farming Exports today as the first farming based company under the wheat export accreditation scheme.
Mr Greentree has this year planted 94,000 hectares of wheat, barley and chickpeas at his farms, predominantly near Mungindi and Collarenebri in the NSW north west.
WEA chief executive officer, Peter Woods, said the announcement was a significant milestone.
It comes one year after the new wheat marketing Act commenced, which abolished the single desk and monopoly marketing of wheat exports by AWB.
Mr Woods said the accreditation of Greentree Farming shows the flexibility of the scheme in providing a range of wheat marketing models.
"Greentree Farming Exports will exclusively market wheat grown on its own properties located in northern NSW," Mr Woods said.
"This is a new era in Australia’s wheat marketing arrangements, where Greentree Farming now has complete control of its wheat from production, harvest, storage, marketing and exporting."
Mr Greentree, a former chairman of GrainCorp and Grain Growers Association, has already been exporting his own wheat in containers which was allowed for anyone from day one of the new arrangements.
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