If you’re looking for a new drier, handling system or even to update your existing facilities, it would be well worth heading to the UK Grain event at Newark Showground on 3 November.

All the main grain storage, cleaning and drying firms will be present and there will be a full programme of seminars and grain clinics for advice.

Seminar Programme

• 10am – Boosting the capacity of on-farm storage – Kent grower Andrew Cragg discusses practical ways in which he has increased his on-farm grain storage without the expense of new facilities. 11am – What is the future for the grain market? – Neil Cameron, Bidwells‘ agribusiness consultant looks at prospects for this season and the forthcoming year’s crop.
  
• 12pm – Options for storage and marketing: Gary Markham, Grant Thornton
  
• 1pm – Better management for faster, cheaper drying – Andrew Kneeshaw from the Farm Energy Centre offers tips on to ensure your drier is working to its full potential.
  
• 2pm – TASCC – Assuring the grain trade – Garry Rudd, AIC, looks at AIC and its trade assurance schemes including TASCC (Trade Assurance Scheme for Combinable Crops).

Details

• Date: Tuesday, 3 November 2009
  
• Address: Newark Showground, Winthorpe, just north-east of Newark NG24 2NY ,
  
• Tickets: £7.50 for pre-booked tickets or £10 on the day; (pre-book via, website, telephone or email)
  
• Contact: 0845 4900 142; admin@farm-smart.co.uk; www.farm-smart.co.uk

Direct Talk

Even if you don’t manage to make it to the UK Grain event, there’s still a chance to put your questions to our three grain storage experts.

From 23 October to 6 November, there will be a Direct Talk facility in the Farmers Weekly website – www.fwi.co.uk– where you can post your question on a special Direct Talk forum.

It will be monitored regularly by our three-man panel and they’ll do their best to give you a helpful answer. Just go to https://www.fwi.co.uk/directtalkgrain– you’ll be able to put your own question or see other farmers’ questions and the answers they were given.

So one way or another it should be interesting stuff.

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