The town is a receival site for Cooperative Bulk Handling and had a Type B structure in the 1970s.

Grain silos belonging to Cooperative Bulk Handling are located at Ongerup and during harvest time these silos store grain from surrounding farms before it is transported to Albany by road for export.

Construction of a grain silo commenced in 1933 as part of the bulk handling scheme that had been introduced by the government and managed by Cooperative Bulk Handling.

The town is a receival site for Cooperative Bulk Handling.

The cooperative was formed in 1922 and one of the inaugural trustees was Charles Walter Harper who became the chairman of the Westralian Farmers Co-operative later the same year and then went on to form Cooperative Bulk Handling.

The Premier of Western Australia, Philip Collier, revealed that leases of land at 48 country railway sidings had been awarded to Cooperative Bulk Handling.