Purpose-built facilities, costing £900,000, have been officially opened by a Lincolnshire seed specialist.

British Seed Houses has created offices and state-of-the-art seed testing facilities alongside extended warehousing at its Witham St Hughs site, near Lincoln.
Managing director William Gilbert said the investment aims to help continue the success of the British-bred Aber high sugar grass and Aber clover varieties.

He claimed that these, and a developing range of alternative forage crops, were meeting rising demand from farmers for home-produced fodder.

"We have also reduced our reliance on costly outside storage and centralised a lot of our GB seed cleaning and mixing procedures on to a single site, increasing overall efficiency by streamlining our operations."

Source: Lincolnshire Echo

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