FEATURED COMPANY:
HARVEST
Being able to dry grain quickly and efficiently is vital, particularly when changing weather patterns are making harvests unpredictable at best. One company that has been consistently providing farmers in the South East and beyond with effective on-floor bulk drying and storage solutions is Harvest Installations, which was set up in Faversham back in 1979 and has since built up an impressive reputation for its products. The company supplies, installs and services its own burners, stirrers and tunnel systems, and while the majority of sales are through a nationwide network of dealers, the company can supply just the drying plant or act as a main contractor in an area where there is no dealer. It was in this guise that Harvest Installations was asked to design, build and fit out an impressive new grain store for Hinxhill Estate at Wilmington Farm, just outside Ashford in Kent. “By being actively involved in the early stages of the process we can design the store around the equipment that we are planning to include > Lewis Harvey
CROP DRYING
INSTALLATIONS
DRYING GRAIN
QUICKLY AND
EFFICIENTLY within it and make sure that everything comes together neatly and efficiently,” explained Harvest Installations’ managing director Lewis Harvey. The Wilmington Farm store, which holds 4,500 tonnes in two large bays, includes a series of air doors that allow specific areas of the store to be dried to the required moisture level and keep the air pressure at an optimum level for drying. ‘Clean out’ doors at the far side of the drying floor make cleaning the store a very simple process..
The store uses Harvest Installations’ own Maxi Stirrers and Constant Humidity Controllers and has an all-hardwood Challow floor. “We like to specify Challow because the quality reflects our own standards,” said Lewis. I have seen some of the company’s floors that are 40 years old, and they are still looking good.” The building itself is equally impressive and was supplied and erected by Norfolk company A C Bacon, again Harvest Installation’s partner >>
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