Store managers must use their nose to achieve the best results, said award-winning Norfolk potato grower Tony Bambridge. <
While computer monitoring of stores had a role, his team at B &C Farming spent more time “smelling the store and feeling the store”, he told about 100 industry professionals at Sutton Bridge Crop Storage Research.
“We’ve positively gone away from having a modem in the farm office. The computer in my office can’t smell what is going on in the store. It doesn’t feel the atmosphere in the store,” said Mr Bambridge, who is chairman of Greenvale AP and also won the Potato Industry Award last November.
While computer monitoring of stores had a role, his team at B &C Farming spent more time “smelling the store and feeling the store”, he told about 100 industry professionals at Sutton Bridge Crop Storage Research.
“We’ve positively gone away from having a modem in the farm office. The computer in my office can’t smell what is going on in the store. It doesn’t feel the atmosphere in the store,” said Mr Bambridge, who is chairman of Greenvale AP and also won the Potato Industry Award last November.
