Interesting, what sort of crops are you looking into? Millet is gluten-free am I right in thinking?We've been looking into it, but not standard stuff, its a bit embarrassing as a farmer, but SWMBO is Gluten and Dairy intolerant, so we're looking into growing crops and the potential markets for food stuffs that fit the need
How much would you do?Did you get anywhere with this? Beginning to toy with the idea myself, particularly re oats. Thanks
That is a fair bit...is there anyone local who could do small batches for you, start with a few tons and see how it sold, then do more if it went well?Possibly.
Expecting 300t in the shed come harvest, but that's a lot of bags of porridge to shift...
Oats themselves are gluten free, its the trace of volunteer wheat that gets into it that creates issues.We've been looking into it, but not standard stuff, its a bit embarrassing as a farmer, but SWMBO is Gluten and Dairy intolerant, so we're looking into growing crops and the potential markets for food stuffs that fit the need
@Wigeon @Adeptandy did either of you take this any further?
Yes I vaguely looked at that sort of thing... couldn't see much of a margin from what I found around here. To be honest when you look at the price of some feed (eg we buy layers mash for our dozen hens) I wonder how they can mill, package, transport and retail it for what is not really a lot more per ton than we sell wheat off the combineNot really the same, but use to either roll or hammer mill grain and beans and then grain maize and offer mixes to sell on to end users ie sheep and cattle farmers, around 1000 t / yr.
Worked well to a point but they (the customers) would change their minds if something else was cheaper or being offered on a deal and had trouble getting money out of some and it got difficult as to know if to continue supplying them each month or not. Worked best with near neighbours but not so good 20 miles plus away as haulage got in the way.