Grain processing

Adeptandy

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
PE15
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
 

MattR

Member
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
Interesting, what sort of crops are you looking into? Millet is gluten-free am I right in thinking?
 

Lincsman

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
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
Oats themselves are gluten free, its the trace of volunteer wheat that gets into it that creates issues.
 

Wigeon

Member
Arable Farmer
Still on the radar but nothing in the way of progress really. As above, being able to produce and process is definitely the easy bit, but even the process part isn' entirely straightforward once you start having to steam/stabilise them.
 

Oscar

Member
Livestock Farmer
Not 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.
 

MattR

Member
Not 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.
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 combine
 

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