Replacing a conventional button-operated control panel with a touch-screen design makes it easier to operate a Svegma tower dryer, reckons Andrew Lee of UK agent BDC Systems.

Data logging is a new feature – it records drying temperatures, incoming and dried grain moisture content and alarm events in a format that can be imported into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet via a USB memory stick.

Apart from provided data required for crop assurance compliance, analysing the information could help growers improve drying technique, he adds.