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Magna R One Grain Last 180 Home, Ship Mart, Magna R in Pakistan

Magna R One Grain Last, Includes Liftgates, Magna R in Pakistan, Exterior Fascias, Non-retail Packaging, Metal And Stone Implements

Planning ahead and being prepared for the next 10 years was the goal for farmer Stuart Whitehouse last year when he extended his grain stores and installed a 20t Magna automatic batch dryer – its larger size and automatic loading and unloading would save the need to employ extra labour, and ensure drying kept pace with harvesting.

At Gayhill Farm on the southern outskirts of Birmingham, Stuart farms in partnership with his parents. They grow 650 acres of combinable crops – feed wheat, feed barley, plus beans and milling oats for the food industry. However, last year, with no blackgrass-clean ground, oilseed rape was grown instead of the oats.

Other enterprises include hay and haylage, a small Texel flock and a suckler herd for which 70 calves are bought in each year, multi-suckled and then finished.

Magna R One Grain Last

Although close to Birmingham the farm is on high ground – mostly 700ft above sea level. Stuart explains: “This means we are late to start harvesting. So it’s not unusual to finish the second week of September. Last year though, it was 7 October before we had finished!

“My father drives the combine, and we have a part-time man for grain carting, but I’m doing everything else, including looking after the cattle! Six years ago we were growing 350 acres of arable crops but now we are up to 650 acres, my parents are heading towards retirement, and so we needed more of an automated grain drying system that could keep up with the harvest and not need so much of my time.”