GROWERS delivered 412,080 tonnes into Viterra’s network in the week to Sunday, with wheat making up the majority of tonnes.

This takes the total intake for the current harvest for South Australia’s major bulk handler, with sites in western Victoria also, to 2.46 million tonnes.

In Viterra’s weekly harvest report, Viterra Western region operations manager Nick Pratt said most of the region’s activity was at sites on the lower Eyre Peninsula.

“With the weather improving for harvesting the Western region received more than double the tonnes last week compared to the week before,” Mr Pratt said.

“Deliveries into Cummins, Tumby Bay, Rudall and Port Lincoln made up most of the receivals.

“As well as receiving growers’ grain, we are also working to move grain to Port Lincoln for export with some upcoming wheat and lentil shipments at the terminal.”

Viterra Central region operations manager Jack Tansley said deliveries were still rolling in across the Central region.

“Our Yorke Peninsula sites were busy last week, with Port Giles receiving the most tonnes for the Central region,” Mr Tansley said.

“On the upper YP, deliveries to Wallaroo and Ardrossan are still strong, but we are seeing them start to slow down as some growers in the area wrap up their harvest.

“Elsewhere, Roseworthy and Gladstone also received good tonnes for the week.”

Viterra Eastern region operations manager Andrew Cannon said Thursday was the biggest day for the region so far.

“It was great to have some good harvesting weather late last week, allowing deliveries to sites in the Murray Mallee and South East to continue, and the northern areas of the region to finish up,” Mr Cannon said.

“In the areas still going, we are starting to see a shift to wheat as the major commodity as growers wrap up their canola harvest.”

	Week to 8 Dec 2024	Harvest to 8 Dec 2024
Western region	191,069	1,199,321
Central region	137,484	946,004
Eastern region	83,527	316,726
TOTAL TONNES	412,080	2,462,051