About

North East Grains is a farmer owned agricultural cooperative based in Northumberland with sites at Longhirst and Swarland.

We provide a complete grain drying, storage and marketing service to our membership whilst offering a wide range of farming focused services.

Alongside our core grain business, we are Northumberland’s largest feed production facility, producing high quality, local livestock feed for all classes of livestock; cattle, sheep, pigs and dairy rations.

In addition to our drying and storage business, we offer:

Livestock Feed Milling and Production.
Grain Marketing and value-added grain sales.
Arable Input purchasing and buying group options.
Fuels and energy purchasing.
Agri Waste collection site.
Agronomy services and Farm Business Consultancy.

History

Founded in 1987 with the objective to provide cost effective and efficient grain storage through a collaborative approach and scale - North East Grains was originally built at our site in Longhirst with 10,000 tonnes of grain storage and just a handful of members, subsequent expansion and increased membership saw the cooperative grow and develop year on year with investments in storage capacity, drying facilities, and the livestock feed processing business. In 2021 we acquired our second site at Swarland and now offers over 100,000 tonnes of grain drying and storage facilities to our ever-growing membership.

How does membership work?

Farm businesses can become members of North East Grains by purchasing storage tonnage in the Cooperative.

Members own the Cooperative which provide the following benefits:

No annual storage charge.

Competitive drying rates.

Access to Input Buying Group inclusive of fuels and electricity.

Value added grain marketing.

For more information on becoming a member and the unique opportunities North East Grains can offer you with grain drying, storage and marketing, please contact our head office at Longhirst.