GREAT YARMOUTH GRAIN TERMINAL CELEBRATES SUCCESSFUL OPENING WITH OVER 80,000 TONNES OF BARLEY, WHEAT AND OILSEED RAPE EXPORTED TO SEVEN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES TO DATE

Speaking at the official opening of the company’s latest facility, David Sheppard, Gleadell Agriculture managing director said: “Our Great Yarmouth Grain Terminal represents the culmination of our development plans in East Anglia which started with the opening of our Swaffham office in 2002. Our objective has been to build a committed team - and the facilities to service their business - for our farmer and consumer customers in the region.

“This new facility is able to dry and condition grain and to ventilate products to ensure quality is maintained. It gives farmers a full drying facility – without the need for their capital commitment – at an end user destination, cutting both cost and carbon emissions. This approach has been proven this year in a wet and disrupted harvest when we have dried significant amounts of farmers’ grain.

“As the first three months of this season have shown, Gleadell is very well positioned to supply our consumer customers - and to find markets for our farmer customers - both within the UK and further afield. By the end of October we will have exported approximately 80,000 tonnes of barley, wheat and oilseed rape to seven different countries from Great Yarmouth.

“While the exact future of agricultural production and the flow of trade is hard to predict, we certainly see imports and exports playing significant roles in the future – particularly in a maritime country like the UK.

“These are exciting times to be in the grain trade and we look forward positively to the future. We firmly believe that ports, particularly deep water ports, will have a key role to play in supplying our domestic and foreign customers with the goods they require.”