Feed is a volume business with a thin margin per tonne, so the warehouse has to be cheap to run and impossible to get wrong. Nothing about the goods is exotic. Everything about the throughput is demanding, and a mistake is measured in tonnes rather than cartons.
Big bags of 500 to 1,000 kg, 25 kg sacks and palletised bulk. Big bags need a stable base and rarely rack well above a certain height, sacks slump, and block storage often beats racking on cost. The decision is made per product, not once per customer.
Feed sits inside the same one-up, one-down traceability regime as food. Every outbound load has to be linkable to the batch it came from, and a feed mill audit will ask for exactly that record.
Most feed volume moves on a contract with weekly or fortnightly call-offs rather than in bursts. That rewards a warehouse that plans labour and doors properly, and it punishes one that treats every order as a surprise.
More than 120 tractors and 220 trailers, so the delivery slot is planned by the same company that holds the stock. On a product where the transport is a real share of the landed cost, that is the difference worth having.



