Wessex Grain has grown from a small farmer’s cooperative to one of the top ten grain traders in the UK. It is renowned for providing growers and grain users with a service that is reliable, friendly and efficient. The company is now the only major grain trading business based solely within the region.

Wessex Grain’s state-of-the-art facilities, and the ability to blend grain on-site, equip it with all the necessary tools to maximise the value of members’ grain. Its 50,000 tonne capacity store, registered with LIFFE as a Grain Futures Store, offers farmers storage space which costs significantly less per tonne than the cost of on-farm drying, cleaning and storage facilities.

Farmers who store their grain at Wessex can be free of worries such as insect infestation, rejected loads or grain collections at inconvenient times. It is all of these measures which improve the marketability of our members’ grain, and thus maximise its value.

Throughout the country, Wessex Grain works closely with the major flour and oat millers, maltsters and oil crushers. It also supplies all the animal feed compounders within the South West region.

The company also has strong connections and knowledge of the export market and so is able to move specialist commodities, especially Malting Barley and any local surpluses, through the ports of Poole, Southampton, Avonmouth, Sharpness and Teignmouth.