Supplier
Steppe Grain Union
Kostanay, Kazakhstan
A farmer-owned cooperative milling-grade hard red wheat, certified to export standard but without a route to the buyers who valued it.
Anthracite — Agriculture · Commodities
From the field to the mill floor.
Grain cooperativeFlour mills
Kazakhstan → United Arab Emirates
The mandate
Anthracite
A 1,400-member wheat cooperative in northern Kazakhstan grew more grain than its regional buyers could absorb — and sold it, year after year, into a saturated local market at the price the elevator dictated.
We were asked to find it a second home. Over nine months we mapped the milling demand of the Gulf, vetted off-take, and brokered the relationships that turned a single harvest into a standing export line.
The two sides
Buyer
Three Gulf mills
Jebel Ali & Dammam
Industrial flour mills running below capacity, seeking a consistent, traceable wheat supply outside their incumbent contracts.
Outcome
42k
tonnes contracted in the first season
3
mills onboarded as standing buyers
9 mo
from first call to signed off-take
“The grain never changed. The market it could reach did.”