High-capacity grain handling, good ventilation and efficient energy use were priorities for a Cambridgeshire farm’s new grain drying installation.
A convenient gap between two grain stores has been filled by a new intake and drying facility that eased harvest operations on a Cambridgeshire farm last year.
In particular, it removed a big bottleneck imposed by the existing 40-year-old set-up and resulted in more timely combining of crops on the 710ha (1,750 acres) at Manor Farm at Keyston near Huntingdon.
“With 5,000t of floor and bin storage we had plenty of capacity for all crops,” says Minto Lohoar of Keyston Farm Partnership. “But putting them through a 20t/hr drier when we’re combining at 45 to 50t/hr was hopeless.”