Malcolm ‘Squib’ Earl started crushing homegrown Canola Seed in a shed on his farm, as a hobby in 2018.  He purchased a small screw press, supplying his family’s piggery with Canola Meal, and a few local farmers with Crude Canola Oil as a stock feed additive.  

With the realisation that this business idea could grow, in 2019, twin brothers Malcolm and Thomas Earl purchased an industrial site on the outskirts of Millicent, a small rural town within the Limestone Coast region of South Australia. This purchase was with the aim of setting up a small Oil Crushing Plant with a Stock Feed Mill attached. The pair quickly achieved their vision of designing and commissioning South Australia’s only Canola Oil crushing facility and Squib Group was born.

Both coming from farming backgrounds the twins also recognised a demand for Grain Storage after the closure of a local Viterra site, leaving lower South East growers with no additional grain storage. In 2019, they purchased Viterra’s smaller storage site in Millicent, and in 2020 they purchased Viterra’s larger adjoining site to expand their own storage capacity for oil seed and to also offer South East growers a local storage facility.

Moving forward to 2024, Squib Group now has the capacity to crush up to 30,000 tonne of oil seed annually, and their storage facility can offer 40,000 tonne of grain storage to local growers. Squib Group has a fleet of 5 prime movers to ship product nationally or provide freight solutions for local growers. 

The company has grown and is now exporting oil internationally, as well as supplying the local and national market.