Arable farmer Ivan Banister has secured vital storage capacity and helped his business overcome some of the pressure caused by new crop diversification rules, by constructing a new grain store. Located near Chipping Warden, Northamptonshire, Warden Hill Farm has been in the Banister family since 1956 and now forms the core of Warden Farms; a large arable enterprise involving five other farms, working under contract farming agreements.
Ivan talked to various agricultural building companies for advice before using local contractors to construct both parts of the new grain store. The first part of the new building was constructed with the secondary expansion undertaken and completed in time for the harvest. Eternit Profile 6 roofing sheets were selected for the project and installed by MJ Barrett.
The roof was the most important consideration for Ivan and it was vital that the roofing material used on the store would resist the pressure from temperature and weather without cracking. Any problems in the roof and subsequent leakage would cause serious damage to harvested crops.
Condensation had also proved a problem in older, steel roofed storage facilities at Warden Farms and the vapour permeable nature of Eternit fibre cement roofing sheets helps to minimise moisture levels within the new storage building.
Overall, Ivan is very pleased with his new grain store and is satisfied that his business now has the capacity to meet increasing demand for crop storage space, well into the future.
