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Grain cooling and climate change

Differential Thermostat Use

Cooling is central to UK grain store management and ensuring continued quality and food safety.  Climate change may become a challenge for UK storekeepers to reach cooling targets.

Differential thermostats provide an effective and efficient way to cool grain and use all available cooling hours.

Innovation Network: Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change

Warwick HRI Innovation Network has funded HGCA to work with research partners CSL, Imperial College London and Robydome Electronics to investigate the use of differential thermostats under current climatic conditions.

The Use of Differential Thermostats in Cooling Grain (this is a link to the HRI website)

Grain storage: Is climate change impacting on grain cooling?   (143kb)
May 2008 TAG Bulletin Article

Farming Futures case study 21: ocus on differential thermostats in grain stores (653kb)

Cooling your grain quickly and cost-effectively to maintain quality
This is a Knowledge Centre module that uses data from the Innovation Network monitoring project