Woldmarsh

Cereals Event – 12th & 13th June

The team will be on stand 8-G-853 at this years Cereals event, refreshments will be available all day. If you would like to meet a certain member of the team, the following people will be available over the two days.

Wednesday 12th June

Stuart McKenzie – CEO

Heather Claridge – Fertilizer

Shannon Eaglestone – Fertilizer

Paul Massey – Machinery

Denise Crask- Fuel

Cheryl Paul- Seed

James Allis – Agrochemical & Seed

Katie Jarvis-Grove – Procurement

Ian Dawson – Member Services

Lucy Mather – Marketing & Events

Thursday 13th June

Stuart McKenzie – CEO

Heather Claridge – Fertilizer

Shannon Eaglestone – Fertilizer

Paul Massey – Machinery

Charlotte Horner – Fuel  & Renewables

Francesca Billings – Electricity

James Allis – Agrochemical & Seed

Nathalie Haleber – Agrochemical

Alison North – Agrochemical

Katie Jarvis-Grove – Procurement

Hazel Copeland – Accounts

Ian Dawson – Member Services

Lucy Mather – Marketing & Events

Woldmarsh are proud to announce there will be a Woldmarsh branded Isuzu D-Max on our CEREALS stand this year.

The truck is the newly rated model with 3.5 tonne towing capacity.

You may see this vehicle out and about over the next few weeks, during show season, as it makes appearances at various events across Lincolnshire and Yorkshire.

Woldmarsh can offer the best rates in the UK on Isuzus – call Amy for a quote.

You can also find the Woldmarsh Isuzu truck at the following events over the summer:

9^th June @ Friskney Show

12-13^th  June @ CEREALS

16-17^th June @ Holbeach Country Fair

19^th-20^th  June @ Lincolnshire Show

7^th July @ Wrangle Show

27-28^th July @ Heckington Show

We would like to announce that James Fisher will be our new Chairman after the retirement of Alan Stovin at the AGM on the 4th June. You can find out more about James in his profile on the website.

This month you will find the Woldmarsh team at a number of events. We’d love to meet our members and also people interested in finding out how Woldmarsh can benefit their business so please come and say hello. You can find us at the following events:

Open Farm Sunday -  9th June

Farmer Browns – Huttoft, Sutton Road, Lincolnshire, LN13 9RL
Sun 9th June 2013
Farm Open Day
Free entry. Open 10.30am – 5pm.

Vintage tractors and modern farm machinery, livestock, craft stalls. Watch the ice cream being made, tractor and trailer rides (weather permitting), wood turning demonstration. Refreshments available including Hog Roast.

Open Farm Sunday  & Wolds Tractor Road Run -  9th June

Hall Farm, Stainton Le Vale, Market Rasen, LN8 6HP
Sun 9th June 2013
Free entry & parking. Open 10.00am – 4pm.

Farming and countryside displays, farm animals and machinery, tractor/trailer rides, vintage tractor run, refreshments available or bring a picnic.

Cereals Event – 12th & 13th June

The team will be on stand 8-G-853 at this years Cereals event, refreshments will be available all day.

Lincolnshire Show – 19th & 20th June

The Young Woldmarsh team will be in the Schools Challenge area within the Discovery Zone at this years show. They will be handing out goody bags for the children which includes an activity sheet as well as some seeds to grow your own carrots!

Ian will be on the Travis Perkins stand so please come and say hello to him if you are passing by.

Farmers will be given a guided tour of a new fertiliser facility thanks to one of the UK’s leading farmers’ buying groups, Woldmarsh.

The farmer-owned agricultural buying group based in Louth, Lincolnshire will take its members to Bunn Fertiliser Ltd’s new Teesport facility in Middlesbrough, which blends and distributes fertiliser for customers across the UK.

The visit on 5^th June has been organised jointly between Woldmarsh and Bunn Fertiliser and will be the first time members of a farmers’ buying group have been to the depot, which opened in January.

Farmers will be given a talk on the facility and its products, before touring the purpose-built site, which is equipped with new machinery including two bagging lines and fertiliser production units.

Woldmarsh, which will be attending the industry’s leading technical event for the UK arable industry, Cereals, on 12^th and 13^th June, said the visit will be an opportunity for farmers to see at first hand how one of the most valuable assets in the industry is supplied to them.

Heather Claridge, Business Manager for Woldmarsh, which is a not-for-profit organisation serving more than 800 members, said: “The aim of the trip is to allow farmers to see for themselves what investments are being made in the UK fertiliser industry. We are particularly keen to be involved as this will be the first farmer trip to the new site, and it will service our customers.

“The facility represents a significant investment in the UK farming industry. The site will offer improved logistics capability for farmers in the north of England, also covering the Woldmarsh area.  It deals with an advanced nitrogen fertiliser, a product which we feel has a place in the Woldmarsh product portfolio.”

The Teesport facility supplies Koch Advanced Nitrogen® (KAN) fertiliser which is becoming popular due to high performance, simplicity and cost-effectiveness.  A recent, comprehensive report by agricultural and environmental consultancy ADAS, stated that the fertiliser provided the best combination of economic performance and greenhouse gas intensity relative to traditional products like ammonium nitrate or urea.

Ian Moseley from Bunn Fertiliser said: “The KAN fertiliser is a product we are particularly proud of and, along with strengthening our relationship with Woldmarsh, we hope the trip will help raise awareness of KAN and its benefits beyond the traditional offerings. This is our first tour, and we are extremely excited to show Woldmarsh members around.”

One Woldmarsh member attending the trip is arable and beef farmer Richard Milligan-Manby, who runs Wykeham Farm at Ludford, near Louth. 

“As a farmer I have to understand where my inputs are coming from and this is a chance for me to see at first hand how a fertiliser facility operates and meet the people behind the product,” said Mr Milligan-Manby, who said the visit will be the first of its kind for him in the UK.

“But more importantly for me, it’s a chance to look at what’s coming up in the future and how the market may change and develop as we go forward.  I’m interested in finding out if there are going to be any new products coming out in the future which will help with the issues of global warming, and help us to reduce our carbon footprint.”  

For more information about Woldmarsh or becoming a member, please visit www.woldmarsh.com or call 01507 602396. For more on Bunn Fertiliser and its products, visit www.bunnfertiliser.com

Lucy, Shannon, Katie and Cheryl will be at Farmer Browns farm for their Open Farm Sunday event. The team will be there to support their members open day and will be handing out goody bags to the children that visit the farm. We hope to see you there!

Farmer Browns – Huttoft, Sutton Road, Lincolnshire, LN13 9RL
Sun 9th June 2013
Free entry. Open 10.30am – 5pm.

Vintage tractors and modern farm machinery, livestock, craft stalls. Watch the ice cream being made, tractor and trailer rides (weather permitting), woodturning demonstration. Refreshments available including Hog Roast.

Ian will be at the Sutton Estates Open Farm Sunday, make sure you say hello if you see him!

Hall Farm, Stainton Le Vale, Market Rasen, LN8 6HP
Sun 9th June 2013
Free entry & parking. Open 10.00am – 4pm.

Farming and countryside displays, farm animals and machinery, tractor/trailer rides, vintage tractor run, refreshments available or bring a picnic.

Farmers and people living in rural Lincolnshire can continue to access vital support after more than £5,000 was raised through a charity golf day.

The money will be donated to the Lincolnshire Rural Support Network (LRSN), which offers pastoral and practical casework services to Lincolnshire’s farmers and rural residents facing tough times.

The golf day, which was won by Wragby-based TCS Spraying, was organised by the charity with help from farmers’ buying group Woldmarsh, based in Louth, which supports the organisation.

Stuart McKenzie, Chief Executive of Woldmarsh, who played on the Mole Valley Farmers team said: “Everyone had a great day even with the awful weather and we are all very pleased with the amount raised. This is a very worthy cause and one we’re pleased to continue to support.

“As our members are all farmers, they understand better than most the importance of having a good support network available, so they always respond with enthusiasm to the opportunity of raising much-needed money for the LRSN.”

The event, now in its third year, saw 23 teams of four take on the course at Waltham Windmill in Grimsby on Friday 24th May. Teams were made up of farmers, Woldmarsh members and volunteers from the charity.

Each team paid an entry fee to take part and then raised sponsorship, with extra cash being raised through sponsorship of the tees and a raffle to reach £5,000 total. In second place was Finnegan’s Fiddle, RBM Agricultural based in Louth came third and fourth place went to Alistair Harvey and team. The longest drives came from Dan McEvoy and Bridget Holmes.

Sophie Dunn, PR and Events Manager for LRSN, said the organisation was delighted by the success of the day. “Huge thanks go to all the companies and players who helped make it such a success,” she said. “Their generosity helped raise over £5,000 which will help us continue to offer our vital pastoral and practical casework services to Lincolnshire’s farmers and rural folk who are facing tough times at the moment.

“Our casework has increased by over 20 per cent from this time last year and these funds will help sustain our support to those in need.”

Donations to the charity can be made to www.justgiving.com/lrsn.

On 23^rd May, Woldmarsh and Grainsafe hosted a Moisture Meter Clinic at the Louth office. Open to members this event allowed members to bring in their moisture meters and probes to be calibrated by a qualified technician from an independent laboratory. Members were asked to make a donation for each meter calibrated with a total of £385 raised by the end of the day. Grainsafe are the company behind Smartprobe which is designed to be left in the grain and gives a constant reading via LED lights, allowing you to see in an instant if the temperature is within a safe zone. If you would like to find out more about the Smartprobe please call Katie or Amy in the Woldmarsh office or visit the Grainsafe website www.grainsafe.co.uk

Houston, 15 May (Argus) — Koch Nitrogen Company announced today it will build a new urea plant at its Enid, Oklahoma, facility and will upgrade current production capabilities at the plant.

The company said the combined projects are expected to add more than 1mn st/yr of fertilizer production at Enid, which produces ammonia, UAN and granular urea. While improvements to existing process at the facility should begin in 2014, final adjustments will be made through 2016. The addition of the new plant will also include increased storage and upgraded loading facilities. Construction of the new plant is expected to begin in the fourth quarter of 2014 and production is expected to commence in 2016.

Koch estimates the total cost of the projects will be $1bn.

“In addition to the significant increase in capacity, this investment will serve to improve our operational efficiency and competitive position in North America,” David Robertson, president and chief operating officer of Koch Industries, said.

For these projects, Koch has sought the services of Black & Veatch, KBR and Stamicarbon, providing project planning and engineering and procurement services, urea engineering and procurement services, and urea synthesis and granulation technology, respectively.

Woldmarsh member and Lincolnshire farmer Andrew Ward will be on tonights One Show in a feature about how he has helped farmers in Cumbria and Wales after the terrible snow that struck earlier in the year. The 10 minute feature shows how awful the conditions were for these farmers and how Andrew and other farmers have clubbed together to help those in need. Don’t miss the show from 7pm tonight – 15th May 2013