Grain Handling, Drying & Storage

Company goes from strength to strength

Bloom eld Installations, formally M. Bloom eld & Sons, is a wellestablished company based in the heart of Su olk that has been serving the farming community for over 100 years.

In 2007, Bloom eld Installations joined Ben Burgess & Co to become part of the growing family rm based in Norwich.

Bloom eld Installations o ers a niche business of refurbished grain handling equipment to both the farming and industrial areas of agriculture, supplying not only across the UK, but further a eld into Europe, Africa and even as far as New Zealand.

Bloom eld Installations specialise in the supply and installation of second hand/used grain conveying and storage equipment, as well as the animal feed side of milling and mixing.

Since joining Ben Burgess, Bloom eld Installations has not only been supplying machinery for grain but also for biomass, wood chip and recycling plants across the UK. With an increased demand for capacity, Bloom eld Installations endeavours to nd more equipment to sell at a reasonable cost. The team take pride in their work and in the ability to o er this unique service.

Under the management of Chris Coe, Bloom eld Installations has gone from strength to strength adding new customers to the company’s existing client base and providing them with the best service possible.

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Can you a ord to have inaccurate grain moisture readings?

In the current climate, with energy and fuel prices on the rise, can you risk incurring the extra costs of grain drying, or the return haulage of rejected loads due to inaccurate hectolitre weight or moisture readings?

Distributor Farm-Tec says the benchtop Dickey-John GAC 2500 and the hand-held Mini GAC 2500 have proved themselves to be the most accurate meters on the UK market. The Dickey-John Mini GAC 2500 moisture meter o ers the highest level of accuracy in its class, using the latest 149MHz technology plus it’s fast and easy to use.

Meanwhile, with the DickeyJohn GAC 2500-UGMA benchtop machine, improved mechanics and the easy-to-use touchscreen has reduced the analysis time, which enables more samples to be tested; key during busy seasons.

Annual servicing and calibration are critical for the accuracy and reliability of your moisture meter, especially with the di erences in UK grain varieties, growing temperatures and conditions. All Dickey-John moisture meters serviced and calibrated by Farm-Tec are programmed with the latest UK-speci c calibrations.

With over 25 years’ experience of selling, supporting and calibrating moisture meters, Farm-Tec has a wealth of knowledge to ensure that your hectolitre weight and moisture meter readings are reliable and accurate, across a range of moistures and temperatures. FarmTec is proud to be an approved, Gold Dickey-John sales and service centre, o ering remote and on-site support, annual servicing, and calibration updates.

For more information on the Dickey-John range of moisture meters, service and calibration and hectolitre weights, contact Farm-Tec. FG

Technology to detect moisture in grain stores

The novelty in testing technology is the AW-Wert measurement system, AW-Control for short. The system allows not only temperature monitoring but also simultaneous control of the bearing via the AW value. The availability of water for physical, chemical, microbial and enzymatic processes is described by water activity, the AW value, and is of great importance for the shelf life of the grain. The complete system is Plug n'Play i.e. you do not need electrical specialists for this. Simply plug in the required components, the measuring and control system is ready. You can monitor the warehouse from anywhere in the world via one device. Ventilation is fully automatic or, if desired, also manual.

• No storage losses