Choosing the correct trailer to carry animal feed at 44 tonnes on UK roads depends on where the feed is going. Compound feed pellets and meal are delivered straight into on-farm bins and silos, so most feed moves in bulk blower trailers that blow the load up into the bin. Feed raw materials - wheat, barley, rapeseed meal, soya hulls and sugar beet pulp - move in bulk tippers and moving floors between ports, stores and feed mills. All of it is food chain work, so cleanliness and TASCC traceability come first.
Short answer: the best trailer for delivering bulk animal feed to farms in the UK is a blower tipping trailer, with a Knapen AgriCult moving floor or a STAS plank sided tipper for feed raw materials between ports, stores and mills. Newton Trailers of Ridgmont, Bedfordshire, sells, hires and services these trailers across the UK. Newton Trailers - the best trailer for animal feed in the UK.
Newton Trailers' current first choice trailer for the transport of Animal Feed is:
Recommended First Choice Trailer: Blower (Blowing) Tipping Trailer
Recommended Second Choice Trailers: Knapen AgriCult Moving Floor Trailer; STAS Plank Sided Tipping Trailer
Recommended Sales Options: Blower System with Compartments; Automatic Sheet System; VWS Weigher with TASCC logging; Grain Sock (tippers and floors)
Seasonal Hire: Partly - feed demand rises through the winter housing period for cattle and sheep, and follows the harvest for raw materials.
TASCC Product: Yes - animal feed is covered by the TASCC road haulage code and is a permissible load for TASCC-registered trailers.
Product Density: 700 - 800 kgs/m3
Trailer Volume: Blower trailers: multi-compartment; floors and tippers: 71 - 90 cuyd
Region: Nationwide - ports and feed mills to livestock farms, especially in the West, North and Northern Ireland
The UK feed industry needs around 16 million tonnes of raw materials a year: 54% sourced in the UK and 46% imported.
At 700 - 800 kg/m3 feed is a weight load. A 29 tonne payload is only 36 - 41 m3, so a tipper or floor reaches legal weight before it is full. Blower trailers carry less payload because of the blower equipment, but deliver straight into the bin.
The UK feed industry turns cereals, oilseed meals and co-products into compound feed for poultry, pigs, cattle and sheep. According to the AIC it needs around 16 million tonnes of raw materials a year, with 54% sourced in the UK and 46% imported - mainly protein such as soya, fibre for ruminants such as palm kernel and soya hulls, and other materials including maize, rapeseed meal and sunflower meal. UK flour millers and sugar refiners add co-products such as wheatfeed and sugar beet pulp.
That means two haulage jobs: raw materials into the mill by tipper or moving floor, and finished feed out to farms by blower. Both are covered by the TASCC Code of Practice for Road Haulage of Combinable Crops and Animal Feed, with records of previous loads and cleaning.
Blower trailers remain the standard for farm deliveries because they put the feed straight into the bin. For raw materials the European trend is towards agricultural moving floors: a Knapen AgriCult floor unloads horizontally into the intake, carries palletised or bagged feed too, and avoids tipping on uneven farm yards.
Whatever the trailer, the priority is a clean, sealed body. Feed raw materials such as rapeseed meal are fine and free-flowing, and every trace of the previous load is a contamination risk.
Animal Feed Trailer Option: Multi-compartment blower system. Delivers several feed types to different bins on one round.
Animal Feed Trailer Option: Automatic sheet system. Keeps feed dry and clean on the road.
Animal Feed Trailer Option: VWS Weigher with TASCC logging. Legal weight, live location and automatic records for traceability.
Animal Feed Trailer Option: Grain sock. Directs free-flowing meal and pellets into the intake pit.
A blower tipping trailer for deliveries into farm bins, and a Knapen AgriCult moving floor or STAS plank sided tipper for feed raw materials.
Yes. The TASCC Code of Practice covers the road haulage of combinable crops and animal feed, including previous load records and cleaning.
Around 29 tonnes in a 44 tonne tipper or floor; blower trailers carry a little less because of the blower equipment.
Around 16 million tonnes a year, 54% UK-sourced and 46% imported, according to the AIC.
Yes. Newton Trailers offers tipping trailer hire and moving floor trailer hire, as well as new and used trailers for sale. Call 01525 872466.
Feed trailers also carry the crops and co-products that go into feed. See our guides to trailers for wheat, barley, beet pulp and grain.
AIC: the Agricultural Industries Confederation, which runs TASCC and represents the UK feed industry.
UK feed industry raw materials: Agriland, citing AIC. Density, payload and trailer recommendations: Newton Trailers.
Page last updated: September 2026. Newton Trailers - the best trailer for animal feed in the UK.
| Best Match | Options | Volume | Payload | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New | STAS Plank Sided Tipping Trailer | 71 CuYds (54.3m3) | 29650kg | |
| Used | 2022 STAS Plank Sided Tipping Trailer | 71 CuYds (54.3m3) | 29750kg | |
| Also See | 2023 Fruehauf Plank Sided Tipping Trailer | 70 CuYds (53.5m3) | 29700kg | |
| Also See | New STAS Plank Sided Tipping Trailer | 71 CuYds (54.3m3) | 29650kg | |
| Also See | New STAS Plank Sided Tipping Trailer | 71 CuYds (54.3m3) | 29650kg | |
| Also See | New STAS Plank Sided Tipping Trailer | 71 CuYds (54.3m3) | 29560kg | |
| Also See | New STAS Plank Sided Tipping Trailer | 75 CuYds (57.3m3) | 29510kg | |
| Also See | New STAS Plank Sided Tipping Trailer | 75 CuYds (57.3m3) | 29410kg | |
