Grain Storage Webcam in Cambridge

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Grain Storage Webcam in Cambridge

If you thought you were going to get a glimpse of what happens to the grains that are used to produce your daily bread before they get milled into flour, think again. The view of the green field in the background is about as close as you’ll get. Sad to say, it’s not a wheat field either so forget popping back to watch the stalks ripen and get harvested. What you will see on this live feed streamed by CamGrain are a lot of very large lorries coming and going between the hours of seven in the morning and five in the afternoon. After that, well, you’ll have to make do with watching the grass in the field or the tree branches and flags undulating in the breeze if there is one.

If you could view this grain storage installation, rather than the entrance where the loaded lorries lumber in, you might be convinced that this stretch of the Fens had been taken over by aliens. The numerous gleaming steel silos stand out on the flat spread of countryside that surround them like something out of a sci-fi movie. They’re not though. This facility has been helping to keep farmer’s crops safe and dry since the early 80’s. They don’t just store wheat here either. The silos store a variety of crops ranging from oats to barley to oil producing rapeseed and even peas.

What happens when the harvested crops arrive on those lorries? As the UK is renowned for being damp and dismal, especially during the harvest period unless it’s a better year than most, the crop is unloaded into a silo where it’s given blasts of hot air to dry it out. That helps prevent the formation of mould while it’s being stored. Sophisticated technology then monitors and regulates the stored product to maintain its quality until it’s shipped out to wherever it’s going to be put to good use. Without them, you’d have no bread on the supermarket shelves or even mushy peas in your local fish and chip shop. That’s something that could only be classed as a disaster so thanks to the CamGrain installation for helping to keep the nation fed.

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