The Council of Grain Grower Organisations Ltd (COGGO) is the product of a vision held by innovative grain growers in Western Australia.  In 1997, 10 Western Australian grain-grower organisations joined together to give local growers a voice and a stake in plant breeding.

In the same year, grower members took the first step in controlling their own future by voluntarily contributing 0.5% of their net farm-gate value of production for investment in plant breeding and associated R&D through COGGO.  This contribution is now playing a major role in assisting Western Australia to maintain its market competitiveness and viability in the grains industry.

	The keys to understanding how COGGO works are: the voluntary contribution; plant breeding investments by COGGO to assist in the delivery of superior crop varieties for WA growers; and the Dividend Entitlement Unit scheme, through which growers may ultimately receive a commercial return on their contributions.