Storage & Warehousing
Crover grain robot secures further £366,000 funding
Crover, the Edinburgh-based company behind a robotic system for monitoring and sampling grain in store, has won £366,000 in innovation funding from the Defra Farming Innovation Programme within UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). The...
Grain separators for intercrop mixes
Grain storage and processing specialist McArthur Agriculture is to distribute JK Machinery’s JCM VibroMAX Grader range in the UK – a sieve cleaner that can separate different crops when grown together. The new kit is aimed at farmers...
Frontier reduces lorry emissions with veg oil fuel
The UK’s largest arable marketing business, Frontier Agriculture, is using a hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) fuel in bulk haulage vehicles at two of its sites, as part of a drive to reduce the carbon intensity of its operations. The...
Simpsons and Yaregrain agree long-term storage
Maltster Simpsons Malt has reached a long-term malting barley storage agreement with the Yaregrain farmer-owned central store at Cantley in Norfolk. The move will service Simpsons’ Tivetshall St Margaret Maltings in the same county...
Sanderson Weatherall acquires UCPE
The Sanderson Weatherall (SW) group of property to auctioneering businesses has acquired Used Cereal Processing Equipment, now trading as UCPE.com, for an undisclosed amount. The move consolidates the used primary crop processing...
Openfield invests in driver training for growing HGV fleet
Arable marketing co-operative Openfield Agriculture is to improve its grain and input deliveries through investing to expand its transport fleet and driver recruitment. While the group has already grown its HGV fleet by 40% over the...