Spent the weekend with James Peck - a 2010 UK scholar. James contract farms over 1600ha near Cambridge. PX farms also has a large grain storage facility and runs a haulage company as well. The structure of the business means all the enterprises complement each other very well. James is always looking for new ideas and is not afraid to have a go. One thing about Nuffield is that it exposes you to a network of positive, passionate and innovative people all over the world.
This is the main storage shed at PX farms. Works are underway to build another one next to it.
See the chaser bin in the background. Most people here use trailers to move their grain around. James did a harvest in Australia a few years ago and could see the benefits of using a chaser bin. He brought some designs back from Australia and got a local engineering company to build him one. Now the company still continues to build them.
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