Evidence sits with growers. Obligations sit with the buyer.
Most of the emissions attached to a grain buyer's supply chain originate on farm. Australia has around 20,000 grain farms, each with its own records and practices.
As assurance tightens, industry averages become progressively harder to defend, and supplier-specific evidence is what will hold up under review. Producing that evidence across thousands of growers, with consent from each, against a deadline, is slow and expensive.
One body of evidence. Many requirements.
The evidence is structured so growers are asked once. Buyers request consent from the growers who supplied them, and the output packages are ready, with the evidence that stands behind the figures.
AASB S2 Group 2 entities entered their first reporting year in July 2026, with Scope 3 in year two.
ISCC certification is a condition of sale for canola into the EU biofuel market under RED III.
Lenders now report financed emissions. A target written into loan terms needs numbers from the growers behind it.
Corporate buyers running CDP Supply Chain and SBTi FLAG targets are pushing grain data from industry averages toward the farm.
Procurement and board reporting is moving from sector averages to headlines and analysis at the supplier-level.
Low-carbon product and sourcing claims have to be substantiated under ACCC green-claims guidance.
Three examples. One platform.
Above the systems you already run.
The systems that trade, move, grade and settle the grain exist. Evidence is being collected too. What is missing is a single layer that carries it across them, so it holds up wherever it is tested.
HerwitzMueller provides that layer. It draws on the systems already in place rather than replacing them.
Usable by every side of the trade.
A grower supplies once and it serves every buyer they sell to, on terms the grower sets. A buyer receives evidence on the same terms as everyone else in the market. An assurance provider assesses one structure rather than one per counterparty.
Usable by every side does not mean visible to every side. Evidence moves only where the grower has consented for it to move.
That is what sitting outside the trade makes possible.
What HerwitzMueller does not do.
It does grade data quality and hold the supporting evidence behind every figure.
It does run established methods and warrant their suitability for the purpose at hand.
It does prepare evidence in a form an assurance provider can assess directly.
Founded from inside the industry.
HerwitzMueller was founded by Karl Pillora, who spent close to seven years in the Australian grains industry with George Weston Foods' Mauri division, one of the country's largest flour millers, leading finance, data and analytics teams, and close to the emissions and sustainability reporting the business was being asked for.
