Tips on cutting grain drying costs in a catchy harvest

摘要

With showery summers predicted to become more common, now is a good time to appraise grain-drying facilities and reinvest where necessary to help deal with any extreme seasons to come.Arable farm businesses have focused on increasing combine capacity over recent years, sold on the theory that getting the crop into the shed quickly helps minimise risk of yieldand quality losses when conditions become tricky. This has, in some cases, come at the expenseof adequate investment into storage and drying infrastructure, with a significant gulf between the best- and least-equipped across the UK.