Seed cleaning. Crop value increase when cleaning standards met
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| Publisher | Milling & Grain |
| Year of publication | 2023 June |
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| Medium | Digital |
| Edition | 1 |
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| Scope & content | How to increase the value of crops on farm is a key consideration for many arable farmers. Andrew Stovin who farms 500ha alongside his father Alan and brother Mathew, at N M Stovin Farms near Alford on the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds, has achieved just that by cleaning their grass seed on farm. JK Machinery’s JCM VibroMAX vibrating sieve cleaner, from McArthur Agriculture, allows the Stovins to meet the exacting cleaning standards of their grass seed merchants and is also used to clean home saved seed. “As well as growing wheat, barley and spring beans and having around 60 suckler cattle, we grow around 160ha of grass seed. Before we had the JCM VibroMAX we had to pay our seed merchants to clean the seed for us,” explained Andrew Stovin. “They would come and take a sample and anything below 98 percent pure seed had to be cleaned. It is not hard to see that paying for cleaning quickly eroded our profit margin.” Read about: Recognising the capacity and a community benefitting design |
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