Buy the consignment in front of you
You are currently purchasing a grade and a relationship. Both are reasonable. Neither tells you where the crop came from, how it was handled, or whether it matches the specification your line actually needs.
A grade certificate is a floor, and floors are not specifications
A commodity grade confirms a consignment cleared a minimum bar. It does not describe calibre distribution, colour consistency, or the handling history that determines whether a lot performs on an automated line.
The requirements sitting on your side of the table have moved considerably. European reporting obligations increasingly reach down to ingredient level, and the long-standing one-step-back one-step-forward rule tells you your immediate counterparty. It does not reach the farm. When a customer or an auditor asks where something was grown, a conventional chain usually cannot answer without a reconstruction exercise.
What arrives with the goods
Conventional purchase
- Grade certificate against a minimum threshold
- Origin known to the region only
- Handling history held by whoever handled it
- Quality sampled at a point you did not choose
- Provenance reconstructed after the fact, on request
- Several intermediaries between grower and importer
Through GANT
- Measured attributes for the specific lot
- One farm per lot, with the record to prove it
- Processing and storage history attached to the lot
- Quality measured after processing, on the finished crop
- Provenance record supplied with the consignment
- Processor to buyer, with the record intact
Competitive on landed cost
Traceability does not have to carry a surcharge. Fewer hands between the farm and your door offsets the cost of documenting the crop properly, and we are happy to walk you through the delivered cost line by line.
Buy to your line specification
Select against the attributes that matter for your process, whether that is calibre for a canning line, colour for retail presentation, or protein for extraction.
An answer when you are asked
The provenance and handling record is structured to be produced on demand, which is a materially different position from promising to look into it.
Saskatchewan to Europe, one corridor first
The first corridor runs from the Saskatchewan facility to European ports, serving buyers in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Spain and Germany. Consignments move in sealed containers with condition and position monitored through the journey.
Concentrating on a single corridor is deliberate. Getting documentation, phytosanitary compliance and delivery right on one route is worth considerably more than being thinly present on several.
Register buyer interest
Tell us what you buy, in what volumes, and to what specification. We will come back with an indicative landed cost for your corridor and a walkthrough of the quality record you would receive.