PROFILE Premier Seed Services


Alan Stollery, Joe Stollery and Jenny Eaves


Grow your own


Suffolk-based mobile seed processor Premier Seed Services is ready for another busy summer helping the region’s farmers. Judith Tooth reports.


Norfolk and Suffolk. Visiting up to three farms a day, each of these mobile seed processing units will clean and dress combinable crops from barley to beans ready for next season’s sowing. Premier Seed Services, based near Saxmundham, is not the only option for farmers saving their own seed, but it is one with a solid foundation in engineer- ing. Founder Joe Stollery set up in business in the 1980s when


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ome harvest a fleet of lorries will be criss-crossing bridgeshire,


Cam- Essex,


farm saved seed was in its infancy. By innovating and developing the processing machinery, he es- tablished what has become the in- dustry standard, using de-awn- er, screen and aspirator, gravity separation and seed treater as the mobile processing line. Today, there are four direc- tors of the family business: Joe, his wife, Nicky Stollery, in charge of finance, their son, Alan Stol- lery, works manager, and daugh- ter, Jenny Eaves, who runs the office and looks after sales and customer support.


Down in the workshop – where full manufacturing facilities are being further expanded this year to bring the total workshop space to 13000 sq ft – a team of six en- gineers and fabricators are put- ting the final touches to a gravi- ty separator ready for export to Canada, one of a dozen or so to be manufactured every year.


Premier Seed Services runs four mobile seed processing units across East Anglia, each visiting up to three farms a day during harvest.


JUNE 2019 • ANGLIA FARMER 55 “We make a variety of ma-


chines, but we specialise in grav- ity separators,” says Alan. “They separate the same size particles down to different specific weights. “As well as agriculture, they are used in many other industries such as recycling of rubber and plastic. We’ve just completed one


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Why not put the effort into next year’s crop?


separator for a gypsum (plaster- board) recycling plant in North- umberland.”


Hard-won reputation “We also make mobile seed pro- cessing units for other compa- nies,” adds Joe. “OK, there’s a risk they might encroach on ‘our’ area, but we would rather work with them and thus help to pro- tect the hard won reputation of farm saved seed with quality ma- chinery.”


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