Farmers planning UK’s most modern crop storage and processing facility
A group of enterprising East Midlands farmers has unveiled ambitious plans to build the most modern crop storage and processing facility in the UK.
Some 40 farm businesses within a catchment area stretching from Milton Keynes in the south to Grantham in the north have already made a financial commitment to the project, which aims to have a 50,000-tonne capacity facility ready for harvest 2009.
The final APF is planned to reach twice this size within four to five years. It will be located, subject to planning approval, on a brownfield ex-quarry site at Geddington, near Kettering and will feature state-of-the-art grain handling, drying and conditioning equipment.
Full story here: Farmers Guardian
Some 40 farm businesses within a catchment area stretching from Milton Keynes in the south to Grantham in the north have already made a financial commitment to the project, which aims to have a 50,000-tonne capacity facility ready for harvest 2009.
The final APF is planned to reach twice this size within four to five years. It will be located, subject to planning approval, on a brownfield ex-quarry site at Geddington, near Kettering and will feature state-of-the-art grain handling, drying and conditioning equipment.
Full story here: Farmers Guardian