Bespoke KC frame allows quick switch from silage to grain
The Kelvin Cave workshop manufactures, modifies and refurbishes a range of milling and ancillary equipment, often making bespoke adaptations for specific farm requirements. One farmer in Warwickshire requested a quick-release IBC frame and Silaspray which can be used to apply additive to silage and easily switched to treating grain.
Learn moreGrain processing range strengthened with Rivakka equipment
In order to maintain and strengthen our market-leading position and respond to the diverse and evolving requirements of our farmers and contractors, we are delighted to have added a full range of equipment from Rivakka.
Learn moreAccolades Keep Coming for Silapactor
The awards celebrate all that’s best in the rural West Country, and the SilaPactor’s prize as the ‘Best Farm Product’ follows receipt of the prestigious Dr Alban Davies Trophy at last year’s Royal Welsh Show.
Learn moreMaking the most of MAIZE
Harvesting maize as forage is the first priority on most growers’ farms,
and we urge producers to follow our recommended Five Ps:
Milling mixed crops to perfect a dairy ration
Norfolk dairy producer, Stephen Temple, is not only growing beans to include in his dairy herd’s ration, but is working with scientists and agricultural engineers to improve their nutritional value.
Learn moreZero bought-in feed for bigger profits and smaller carbon
There are no bought-in feeds and limits on other purchased inputs on the Northumberland farm of Geoff and Alan Bean. This demands a diversity of crops and originality of thinking.
Learn moreGROWING the dairy ration has built PROFITS for REINVESTMENT
Cornish dairy producer, Tim Wood, is not one to follow the crowd. By growing his feed on the farm and improving the way it is processed, he has kept profits at home and fuelled reinvestment.
Learn moreYorkshire farmer says he’s buying ‘feed’ not ‘filler’
Ian Kipling has been buying feed from Phil Metcalfe for his stock at Stone Close Farm for around 20 years. Farming 80 suckler cows plus followers and 560 ewes in the uplands near Scargill Moor in the Yorkshire Dales, he’s in no position to grow livestock feeds of his own.
Learn moreTreating the customer as king has built thriving feed trade
Adding value has been a mantra at Foxberry Farm in North Yorks for at least 20 years, since Phil Metcalfe’s father first took an order for four tonnes of rolled barley from a local livestock producer.
Learn moreSilaPactor: the ‘in thing’ in Devon for Silage Compaction
Across the green and verdant land of Devon – arguably the best grass-growing county of England – the trusty SilaPactor, Kelvin Cave’s silage compactor, is truly having its moment. So much so, that Matthew Alford – agronomist by day and owner of a newly fledged hire company in his spare time – has bought six of these mighty machines in under two years.
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