CBH Group brings in record amount of grain from Geraldton zone in biggest harvest in its history

Geraldton grain farmers have had their biggest harvest on record, attributed to storage preparation and favourable weather conditions.

The end-of-season report of CBH Group, the State’s main grain handler, shows grain harvested reached more than 24 million tonnes over the 2025-26 season, including 4.6Mt from the Geraldton zone.

The intake broke the previous record set in the 2022-23 season of 3.9Mt in the Geraldton zone, which covers the area from Yuna to Marchagee.

Collette Newton, CBH Geraldton zone general manager, said the season was an “amazing achievement”.

“I think we broke just about every site record on daily tonnes received,” she said.

“And a handful of sites also broke their all-time receiver record for the seasons, and we obviously took 4.6Mt across the zone, which is 600,000 tonnes more than we’ve ever taken before.”

Geraldton grain terminal also set a new seasonal record, taking in 941,000 tonnes of grain.

Ms Newton said the key to the record season had been preparing early, and that the company had started getting the hub ready in March last year.

“We built a lot of extra storage at the primary sites like Carnamah, Mingenew, Narngulu, so that we were ready to receive that crop,” she said.

The company said they were committed to a high‑performing supply chain as large crops become more common.

This season’s haul is significantly higher than last year’s 3.4Mt harvested in the Geraldton zone — up 35 per cent in one year — which Ms Newton said was mainly because “the weather was definitely on our side”.

On top of the huge numbers, Ms Newton was thrilled for another first — the first time the Geraldton zone had a harvest season with no injuries.

“To have a season that was delivered, not only a record season, but in the safest way ever on record was amazing,” she said.

More than 80 per cent of the harvest was delivered in less than seven weeks, and it was the fourth time in five years total harvest deliveries have exceeded 20 million tonnes, after originally reaching the threshold in 2021.

Across WA, CBH has recorded its biggest harvest in its 92-year history — its 24Mt surpassed the previous 2022-23 harvest record of 22.9mt by 1.3 Mt — an increase of more than 6 per cent.