Our History
Plum Grove was started in July 2003. The Plum Grove initiative was based around experiences developing and trading products for Australia's single desk operater AWB Ltd, and in the financial services industry. We held a strong belief that the work being done around both risk management and transparency within the financial services industry, could be applied to the Western Australian grains industry. This vision saw the development of the Professional Choice Managed and ProtectionPlus pools which are run in conjunction with CBH Grain, as well as our own independently managed Harvest Pool.
Since its inception, Plum Grove has now grown to one of WA's most respected pool managers. Plum Grove now has a team of people who are continuing to build around Plum Grove's core foundations of professionalism, innovation and reliability. Plum Grove believes that they will continue to grow into the future as they work directly with grower across the state to develop new and exciting products that are for the benefit of all.
At the end of 2009, Plum Grove announced that it was only the second WA based agribusiness to be granted bulk wheat export accreditation by Wheat Exports Australia.
Why the name Plum Grove?
One of the strengths of Plum Grove is their close relationship with WA wheat growers. This relationship stems back to its founding directors and their country upbringing. Tony Smith, a founding director, was born and raised on a mixed farming property just north of Goomalling in the central wheat belt. Tony's family farm was part of long generation of family farms in the area. The property in which Tony grew up bordered the farm in which his father was raised and along which was a local landmark known as "Plum Grove". Although the original origins of the name of Plum Grove cannot be verified (all the locals seem to have a different story), it was this connection with WA family farms that the founders wanted to bring with them into the business.
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The Managed and ProtectionPlus Pools are a joint initiative between Plum Grove & CBH Grain.
