Birkdal Partners › Forward Supply
West African grain, contracted forward.
Buyers need assured supply; growers need an assured market. Birkdal contracts both.
Structure
Two Legs
Supply leg
Growers
- Registered growers; Birkdal blocks
- Floor price + market upside
Arranger
Birkdal
- Drafts the contract
- Matches buyer and grower
- Priced against the GCX
Buy leg
Buyers
- Feed mills, processors, trading houses
- Flat, indexed or bounded price
- Delivered to schedule and specification
White maize · Yellow maize · Soya bean
Physical grain contracts, settled by delivery. Not financial instruments, securities, cash-settled contracts or insurance. A fixed price may settle above or below market.
Specification
Quality and Traceability
| Control | Maize | Soya bean |
|---|---|---|
| Moisture | ≤ 13.5%, two probes per lot | ≤ 12% |
| Foreign matter | ≤ 2% | ≤ 2% |
| Mycotoxin | Aflatoxin screen per lot at intake | Per contract |
| Post-harvest | Cleaned, dried and fumigated to contract before dispatch | |
| Traceability | Every tonne traced to a named grower and a mapped plot | |
| Land-use baseline | Set at registration; supports deforestation-free documentation | |