Camgrain Sites

Camgrain operates four Advanced Processing Centres (APC), working as one co-ordinated unit to optimise farmer collections and customer deliveries.
The locations of these sites offer farmers and customers major efficiency gains throughout the marketing year.
Members' crops are delivered to the site closest to the end market, capturing the initial move into central store at harvest as part of the journey process to the customer, saving transport cost and food miles.
Members of Camgrain are not members of a particular APC store, their grain will simply leave the farm and go to the most appropriate site for the crop.

Cambridge APC

The Cambridge APC is unique in the farmer owned central storage market as the first and only site to gain British Retail Consortium Global Standard (BRCGS) grade AA accreditation, a key differentiator in the supply chain and a route to providing new added value markets for members.

Operating a state of the art Clean Wheat Plant, the store has opened up access into the breakfast cereal market for Camgrain members bringing added value to Group 3 and Group 4 wheats. Capturing grant aid has helped build a store that is highly energy efficient, bringing the direct benefits of scale into drying operations and construction.

Grain is dried using only 70% of the fuel required per tonne for a normal small scale farm drier, saving thousands of litres of fuel per year, whilst securing crops of the highest quality with prompt harvesting.

Linton APC

Linton APC was the first site to be developed as part of the Camgrain storage co-operative. In 1983 it was a green field site, storing 10,000 tonnes of members’ produce in the first year of operation. With continuous investment and maintenance, the site has grown into one of the most progressive grain handling plants in the U.K. The major benefit of this site is the ability to segregate and blend a wide variety of crop types and variety quality bands.

The Linton APC specialises in all niche sector crops. Malting barley is the major crop stored at this site, reflecting the stores’ proximity to the malting barley growers and East Anglian malting barley industry. Spread across fifteen acres, the site stores over 150,000 tonnes annually and has intake capacity for up to 10,000 tonnes per day.

Stratford APC

Located in Stratford Upon Avon and originally established in 1978 on an old WW2 airfield site, the co-operative merged into Camgrain in 2012 with its 50 members and 27,000 tonnes of storage. Since then the site has been upgraded and modernised to bring up to Camgrain standards. The site layout has been improved along with a new weighbridge and office layout, new large scale bulk out loading facilities and vastly improved control room ergonomics thus radically improving reliability and turnaround times.

Yelo, the first new rapeseed processing plant in the UK for over 30 years, is now co located on the Stratford APC site. Sustainability and added value products are at the core of its business model. The rapeseed crush is supplied with seed direct from the SAPC storage and intake operation with a long term supply agreement in place. A win win with supply chain efficiency for both parties and reduced road miles.

Northants APC

Located between Kettering and Corby, the Northants APC site is a game changer for the quality wheat supply chain. Strategically located at the centre of over 1.2 million tonnes of quality wheat processer usage, the site was built with industrial scale logistics, drying and handling capability. Following the completion of the Corby Link road in 2014, the site has exceptionally good access to all major trunk roads and delivery destinations.

The difficult harvest in 2012 saw many supply chains severely challenged, resulting in lost contracts for bread and breakfast cereal production. Many companies switched to sourcing overseas. All Camgrain supply agreements were unaffected, strengthening our position in the market and cementing long-term relationships with our customers. Camgrain’s infrastructure and harvest logistics played a key role during this season because combines were able to cut our wheat whenever the straw would go through the combine. This ensured that quality was retained when most others watched their crops deteriorate in the fields.