THE BUSINESS
OUR BUSINESS PRESENCE
IN THE GRAIN VALUE CHAIN
PROCUREMENT OF RAW MATERIALS
PRE-SEASON PLANNING
Producer Activities
Evaluation and recommendations regarding farming practices:
Soil surveying, crop and variety planning and tillage planning.
Negotiate credit.
Finance land and equipment.
Insure inputs and harvest.
PROVIDERS OF SERVICES AND INPUTS
SENWES PRECISION FARMING SOLUTIONS: Provides a specia
lised agricultural service by means of sustainable and techni-
cal solutions, as well as agri-economic advice.
Procurement of raw materials.
Contracting.
Handling and storage of product.
Negotiates inputs.
Acquires capital goods.
Upgrading of agricultural equipment and whole goods repairs.
Insures assets.
PROVIDERS OF SERVICES AND INPUTS
PART 1
PROVIDERS OF SERVICES AND INPUTS
PART 2: PLANNING THE SEASON PLANTINGS
PART 1: PLANNING THE SEASON FUNDING
Off-taker Activities
Producer Activities
SENWES EQUIPMENT, JD IMPLEMENTE AND STAALMEESTER:
HINTERLAND GROUP: Bulk orders and purchases from whole
salers and input suppliers of fertiliser, fuel, seed and pesti-
cides.
SENWES ASSET FINANCE: Finance solutions for agri-machi BASTION: Negotiates agricultural lime prices and volumes
with off-takers of lime, independent of a third party.
nery, implements and bonds over fixed property.
CERTISURE AND UNIVISION: Credit life insurance, asset in-
surance, wealth, retirement and succession planning.
CERTISURE AND UNIVISION: Crop insurance broker (hail and
multi-peril insurance).
OPERATIONAL EXECUTION
Off-taker Activities
Logistical solutions and settlement of accounts.
PROVIDERS OF SERVICES AND INPUTS
Off-taker Activities
Milldoor contracts and financing of raw materials.
PROVIDERS OF SERVICES AND INPUTS
GRAINOVATION: Logistical solutions.
PART 2
OPERATIONAL EXECUTION: PLANTING
Maintenance of capital goods: Repairs and replacement
of whole goods for preparation of fields.
Preparation, tillage and planting of crops.
Pre-season marketing.
PROVIDERS OF SERVICES AND INPUTS
PART 1: PLANTING PREPERATION
Maintenance of capital goods: Repairs and replacement of
whole goods for planting.
Planting of crops.
Fertilising, weed control, pest control and cleaning of fields.
Crop insurance.
Pre-season marketing.
PROVIDERS OF SERVICES AND INPUTS
SENWES CREDIT: Activates facilities for continuous purchases.
SENWES EQUIPMENT, JD IMPLEMENTE AND STAALMEESTER:
Precision farming and maintenance solutions (spares and
workshops) for equipment used during the planting season.
SENWES GRAINLINK: Marketing of pre-season contracts to
producers.
HINTERLAND GROUP:
Supplies input products for grain cultivation during the
season through its network of retail branches.
Provides other input supplies to the producers and
other retail clients throughout the year.
BASTION: Supplies agricultural lime and gypsum products to
producers.
Producer Activities
PART 2: PLANTING
Maintenance of capital goods: Repairs and replacement of
whole goods for harvesting.
Harvesting of product.
Handling, weighing, cleaning and drying of grain.
Taking the product to the market.
PROVIDERS OF SERVICES AND INPUTS
PART 3: HARVESTING
plied advice and composition of crop development reports.
SENWES CREDIT: Specialised agricultural economic services
such as feasibility and viability studies and financial farm
management programmes.
SENWES EQUIPMENT, JD IMPLEMENTE AND STAALMEESTER:
Precision farming and maintenance solutions (spares and
workshops).
SENWES GRAINLINK: Grain procurement contracts in order
to market crops in advance.
HINTERLAND GROUP: Supplies agri-chemicals and fertiliser in
order to optimise crop development.
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SENWES CREDIT: Financing solutions for off-takers.
MARKETING
Producer Activities
SENWES PRECISION FARMING SOLUTIONS: Monitoring of ap-
grain as well as quality and moisture management for millers.
ESC: A platform for the management and trading of silo
certificates for the off-taker.
MOLEMI SELE: Value addition to credit life insurance (under-
writing and reinsurance) and investment of surplus cash.
Producer Activities
SENWES GRAINLINK: Receiving, handling and storage of
TRADEVANTAGE: Concludes contracts for delivery of raw
materials to millers.
Supply new and used whole goods and implements, as well
as precision farming equipment, maintenance solutions and
spares for existing equipment.
SENWES CREDIT: Offers a variety of financing solutions (e.g.
seasonal credit, monthly accounts and tailor-made products
to meet the needs of our clients).
SENWES EQUIPMENT, JD IMPLEMENTE AND STAALMEESTER:
Producer Activities
Marketing of goods from a registered and acknowledged
facility.
Finalises obligations with financiers.
Evaluation of results of past season.
Financial planning for the next season.
PROVIDERS OF SERVICES AND INPUTS
Precision farming and maintenance solutions (spares and
workshops) for equipment used during the harvesting pro-
cess.
GRAINOVATION: Logistical solutions and farm-loading.
NAUTILUS HEDGE FUND: Provides hedging and potential
market opportunities for the group.
Evaluation of past season results.
Financial performance assessment and planning.
SENWES GRAINLINK: Receiving, handling and storage of
grain as well as quality and moisture management for pro-
ducers.
SENWES PRECISION FARMING SOLUTIONS:
SENWES CREDIT: Finalisation of production loans and refinan
cing at the end of the season.
SENWES ASSET FINANCE: Evaluation of asset financing solu-
tions.
SENWES GRAINLINK: Provides grain marketing solutions and
product strategies.
CERTISURE AND UNIVISION: Evaluation of insurance portfolio.
ESC: A platform for the management and trading of silo cer-
tificates for the producer.
CERTISURE AND UNIVISION: Crop insurance broker (hail and
multi-peril insurance).
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SENWES INTEGRATED REPORT 2019
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