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North East Grains is a large farmer owned cooperative based at Longhirst,
Morpeth. North East Grains was founded in 1987 with a 10,000 tonnes capacity
drying and storage facility and just 4 members. The farmer owned members
cooperative was set up with the aim to benefit its membership with a
collaborative approach through scale and providing a range of services. Since
then, North East Grains has grown to one of the largest farming cooperatives in
the North East with our original aim at the forefront of this growth. Today,
North East Grains offers over 60,000 tonnes of grain drying and storage to its
80 plus members as well as a number of other beneficial services including:
Feed Milling and Production Grain Marketing and value-added grain sales
Input purchasing and buying group Fuels and energy supplier Agri Waste
collection site Agronomy service and Farm Business Consultancy North East
Grains has, and continues to developed the grain and feed facility and its
services it offers. Most recently, we have invested over £2m in a
state-of-the-art grain drying and cleaning plant increasing the site’s
processing capacity to over 150 tonnes per hour alongside extending our grain
storage capacity by 20,000 tonnes. We are investing heavily in our feed
production facility to further improve the quality, consistency and traceability
of our ever growing feed business. This will benefit our members by adding value
to the marketable grain but also to local producers who rely on the feed we
produce. In 2022 North East Grains received granting funding from the Rural
Payment Agency – funded by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development
(EAFRD), which is part of the European Structural Investment Funds (ESIF). This
Funding formed part of our newly developed Feed Production System.
