Wheat – this is grown for a variety of uses including the Scottish whisky market and the Ensus plant on Teesside. They extract Ethanol from the grain, to be used as a green energy to replace fossil fuel.
Barley – this is grown for a variety of uses including the Scottish beer and lager market in Scotland. It is also sold for animal feed and is a very popular feedstuff for cattle and horses.
Oil Seed Rape – this is transported to either Hull or Liverpool and is used to produce cooking oil. Due to government legislation concerning greener road fuels all diesel fuel now has to contain 10% green fuel. This means that some of our Oil Rape Seed is now going to companies such as Greenergy to satisfy this market.
Oats – this is grown as is a popular breakfast cereal ingredient, and animal feedstuff.
Beans – these are exported around the world for human consumption, and also used for animal and fish feed in Scotland.
Dryden farms also provides agricultural contracting services on a further 5,000 acres (2023ha) across County Durham, North Yorkshire and Tyne & Wear. We offer a large range of different services, including crop spraying, avadex application, combine harvesting and silage. We are fortunate to have a super team of hard working, professional staff, and a great fleet of modern tractors and machinery at our disposal.
In addition to arable farming and agricultural contracting, we offer bed and breakfast facilities for pigs, produce and sell our own lamb boxes, rear our own flock of free range KellyBronze turkeys and sell free range chicken eggs. We also harvest a large amount of grass which is sold as quality haylage for both livestock and horses.
At Dryden Farms we take great pride in the quality of our farming practices and produce, and we are accredited by Red Tractor Assurance. Red Tractor Assurance have some of the most comprehensive farm and food standards in the world. We work closely with farming experts, vets, animal welfare experts, and agronomists to ensure our produce is farmed to the highest of standards, is traceable and safe.