This new area on HGCA's website provides easy access to the vast amount of levy-funded reference material to help growers and store keepers maintain grain quality cost effectively during storage. Each key stage following harvest has its own section containing relevant topic sheets, guides, posters, tools and video clips. The site will be updated as new tools and publications become available.
Featured tools and publications
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Grain moisture - guidelines for measurement (2008) Explores the importance of measuring moisture content and provides practical pointers for getting the best from your moisture meter |
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SP01 |
Best practice in grain storage for cereals and oilseeds (2009) HGCA Signposts - a leaflet aiming to set out the comprehensive range of HGCA information existing in this section. |
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G13 |
Grain Storage Guide - 2nd Edition (2003) The definitive, comprehensive and assurance scheme approved guide to safe and cost-effective grain storage |
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Grainplan - www.grainplan.info (2007) A user-friendly, interactive database you can tailor to your own storage facilities for managing all the details of your stored grain in an assurance scheme-compliant way |
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Use the sub-menu under 'Grain Storage' on the left of the page to view the publications and tools relevant to each key stage.
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