CROPPERS have delivered more than 3.5 million tonnes of grain to Viterra sites so far this harvest, with 960,000t delivered in the past week - including more than 225,000t on Thursday last week alone.
Wheat made up the majority of the week's deliveries as growers finish their barley harvest.
Viterra's Roseworthy and Port Lincoln sites set daily receival records on Thursday last week, with 17,156t and 13,675t delivered, respectively.
Roseworthy's previous daily record of 17,054t was achieved during the 2016-17 bumper harvest.
Viterra Central region operations manager Jack Tansley commended the company's employees for managing large volume days "safely and efficiently", and thanked growers and carriers for their support on-site.
"It's great to see that we've had a record broken, we've been very focused on working closely with growers and meeting their needs," Mr Tansley said.
"We have worked on extending hours so they can continue delivering into our sites until late when they finish harvesting for the day."
The Port Lincoln site has been especially busy this season, having already set daily receival records three times this year.
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"The most recent record breaker is even more impressive as the site was simultaneously loading vessels last week, as our busy shipping programme commences," Viterra Western region operations manager Nick Pratt said.
All 55 of Viterra's grower receival sites are now taking deliveries, with its Frances site taking its first delivery - a load of canola - on Wednesday last week.
"Frances is usually one of our last sites to start receiving grain, we keep in close contact with local growers who let us know when they are ready to make their first deliveries," Viterra Eastern region operations manager Jo Klitscher.
"In the Eastern region, we had another good week last week despite the weather causing problems for growers who had to work around both extremely hot days and cooler days with rain."
Viterra Operations Manager Michael Hill said so far this harvest, more than 300,000t of grain had been instantly upgraded through the dynamic binning service, equating to about $2.5 million in value to growers.
"We expect those figures to keep increasing as harvest continues and wheat deliveries pick up," Mr Hill said.
"We are also seeing transactions through our warehouse to cash service continue to increase along with tonnages into our sites, as growers instantly sell their warehoused grain to a cash price."
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