The first new Mecmar Super Range grain driers have just arrived in the UK. The Super Range was first manufactured by Mecmar in the 1980s and has been revived this season. It is a small capacity mobile batch grain drier with a simple and robust design that retains the high level of specification featured on the entire Mecmar range.
The Mecmar Super Range has been re-designed and put back into production to meet the demand of two key customers in the UK:
- Smaller arable farms looking to on farm drying to maximise the value of their product before sale
- Livestock farms using on farm drying to minimise operational costs associated with producing and storing their own feed
The Mecmar Super Range features a drier with a 7 tonne capacity and a larger machine with a 10 tonne capacity. The range is generally suitable for farms drying up to and around Continue reading ‘New Mecmar Super Range mobile batch grain driers arrive in the UK’
I recently came across a book called Drying and Storing Combinable Crops by K. A. McLean, it was published in 1980. A small section (one and half pages in fact) is dedicated to mobile batch grain driers. It is a fantastic indicator of the changes in the UK market in the last 30 years. It also offers some very good advice that is still as true today as it was back then. I will briefly reflect on some of the more interesting points it raises.
I will start my second post on fuel economy by reiterating the most important point in my previous post. 
Mecmar grain driers come with the option of a 