HAY exporting business Wingara Ag has expanded its holdings to ramp up its production capacity.
The Victorian-based agribusiness has purchased a new 20 hectare site at Dooen, Victoria. The site actually forms part of the Wimmera Intermodel Freight Terminal.
The site will boost Wingara’s oaten hay production by 200,000 tonnes a year.
The property will also allow for possible expansion into processing, storing and exporting of other agricultural products.
Wingara’s business is aimed at the Asian market where demand is rapidly growing in China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan in line with their expanding dairy industries.
China now imports Australian oaten hay at a rate of about 185,000 tonnes a year. There, imports of Australian oaten hay are still dwarfed by imports of alfalfa or lucerne hay mainly from the US, which sit at around 800,000t.
China does not import other cereal hay, cereal straw or lucerne from Australia.