Posted: 28 January 2020
Over 22.5 tonnes – around 50,000lbs – of closed cup and button mushrooms are produced each week at David Mann’s farm near Bungay in Suffolk, part of the Waveney Mushrooms co-operative of East Anglian growers, supplying supermarkets, wholesalers and caterers. Growing them requires a huge tonnage of compost. The task of handling the materials to make this has, since late last year, fallen to a 9.1t/3.7m capacity CLAAS TORION 1410 wheel loader.
The TORION was a big change from our previous wheeled loaders, but it’s done exactly what we’ve asked of it so far.”
David Mann
Waveney Mushrooms