Who we are

Established in 1982, Kelvin Cave Ltd specialise in products and systems that enable livestock farmers to make more use of their home grown feeds. Our experienced team shares a wealth of knowledge of both practical farming and livestock nutrition. The company also runs a herd of pedigree Aberdeen Angus cattle on its farm in Somerset.

Having discovered the major economic and nutritional benefits that the Finnish system of grain crimping could offer the livestock industry in the British Isles, Kelvin Cave Ltd took on the sole distribution rights for Korte crimping machines and Kemira crimped grain preservatives in 1996. Since then farmers throughout the British Isles have adopted the system in ever increasing numbers and it is now accepted as an economical and efficient way to feed livestock, maximizing the full potential of homegrown cereals and pulses.

In 2001 the company introduced the system to New Zealand, and 2002 saw the first crimping in Australia, Denmark and Iceland.

Harvestmasters

In 2002 the company joined forces with Keith Williamson, one of the leading experts in combine-harvesting equipment and manufacturer of the Nichols concave, which won the Royal Agricultural Society of England Award of Merit in 1999. Now known as Harvestmasters, a subsidiary of Kelvin Cave Ltd, the company is dedicated to improving the efficiency of grain harvesting equipment, manufacturing the Nichols concave and high quality, heavy-duty beater bars for all makes, and most models of combine-harvester. The company also offers a sieve reconditioning service.

Harvestmasters are also sole distributors in the British Isles of the revolutionary Shelbourne Reynolds stripper header.

As a small, but growing family business, the company is proud of its principle of only marketing products and systems that are supported by valid independent research, and that are cost-effective for the farmer seeking a sustainable method of livestock production.

Kelvin Cave Ltd and
Harvestmasters are
sole UK distributors for:

Crimping and dry rolling machines

Crimpstore 2000S
Crimpstore 2000
Crimpstore Premier
Grainstore pH5
Wholecrop Preserver

Concaves
Beater bars
Sieves
Drum reconditioning
Shelborne Reynolds
stripper headers