News & Events
Welcome to NetworkGrain UK's News and Events board. News stories from throughout our network of stores.
ANGUS FARMERS TO BUILD PORTSIDE FACILITY
This facility – which is a venture between local farming group Angus Cereals Ltd and Openfield –will benefit from a £2.26m grant support from the Scottish Executive.
Their aim is to professionally transport, condition, segregate and store grain from farms across the region, eliminating wasted cost and opening up added-value market opportunities.
KERNOW GRAIN EXPANSION UNDERWAY
After receiving a grant of almost £380k from the Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE), Kernow Grain Ltd near Bodmin, has started work on expanding its grain storage facility.
LINCS STORE SET TO EXPAND
Woldgrain Storage Ltd has started construction of an additional 18,000t storage facility in time for harvest 2010. Once completed, this will make it one of the largest central storage businesses in the UK.
Weald Granary secures grant funding from RDPE
Weald Granary has secured grant funding in support of a £1.9m expansion programme at its central store facility at Mereworth, near Maidstone.
The grant – awarded by the South East England Development Agency under the Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE) - will meet 40% of the project’s costs.
New Company to provide National Grain Storage and Processing Network
Ten farmer-owned central storage co-operatives from across the UK have joined forces to create NetworkGrain UK, a new market-focused organisation and brand, that aims to create and deliver greater value across the supply chain.
Through joint co-operation, NetworkGrain UK will set clear standards for supply of its network assured grain. All stores will work together to better meet market needs, driving out logistical and operation inefficiencies
Regional Grain Centre wins £2million funding
Nearly £2 million RDPE funding for a regional grain centre has been awarded from the Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE).
An ambitious scheme to provide a strategic regional centre has been put forward by Wiltshire Grain Ltd – a 93-member grain farmers’ co-operative – with the aim of increasing by more than a third its capacity to take in, dry and process crops.
Wiltshire Grain are founder members of NetworkGrain UK the leading provider of vendor assured grain throughout the UK.
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The conference, which is open to NetworkGrainUK members will be addressed by senior figures from commercial businesses involved in the cereal supply chain.
The topics covered will include improving quality, funding storage, logistics and the chance to look at successful supply chain partnerships.