Export Partners
At Underwood Grain, our goal is to produce high quality edible beans and food-grade soybeans that exceed customer expectations. Through dedicated efforts to maximize bean colour and purity, we pride ourselves on delivering beans to buyers around the world for direct consumption and processing.
We offer several market classes of edible beans and food-grade soybeans including:
| Variety | Hilum Colour | Protein % |
|---|---|---|
| S03-W4 | IY | 41 |
| S04-K9 | Y | 43 |
| S07-M8 | IY | 42 |
| S12-J7 | Y | 43 |
| OAC Strive | IY | 42 |
Field Production
Underwood Grain is fortunate to have excellent edible bean and food-grade soybean growers who understand the value and importance of producing quality beans. By focusing on quality from seeding to harvest, our producers grow beans that they feel just as confident feeding to their own families as they would feeding families around the world. By following procedures laid out by Underwood Grain, including the use of certified seed, equipment cleanout checklists, on-farm inspections, and segregated receiving and storage facilities, the producers together with Underwood Grain can ensure that the beans destined for processing reach our facility in optimal quality.
Processing & Quality Assurance
Food Safety & Quality Statement: We are committed to continual improvement and exceeding customer satisfaction by safely and efficiently providing the highest quality products and services.
Underwood Grain employs a number of policies and procedures, together with industry certifications to monitor and optimize the quality of beans we deliver to our buyers across the country and around the world. Underwood Grain is a licensed grain elevator, holding HACCP and CIPRS certifications. We are also certified under the BRCGS START! Programme for soybean and edible bean receiving and processing.
Processing Journey
When beans arrive at Underwood Grain, they are first sampled for moisture and quality, and a sample is retained. The beans are then sent to one of our dedicated IP soybean or edible receiving stations where the beans are segregated into dedicated silos based on market class or variety. Once processing begins, the beans first reach our air-screen cleaner before passing across a destoner, gravity table, and finally an optical colour sorter. Throughout processing, the beans pass through in-line magnets several times, with additional magnets positioned prior to final packaging. Quality checks are performed constantly to ensure a consistent product quality is achieved over the course of processing.
Underwood Grain offers a variety of packaging options, including bagging in poly or paper material, totes, or bulk loading. We are also able to load both shipping containers and van trailers to meet your logistics and shipping needs.
