Investing in a bigger and better tractor was a game changer for the family
“I was 15 when mum and dad had moved here from the village in 1995, taking over the farm from my grandparents Ray and Sylvia who had come here in 1955.
“I’d also worked for other contractors on a self-employed basis, but the move to getting some work of our own for others came when we had got to the point where a lot of our farm machinery was in need of replacement.“That’s when we invested in a bigger and better tractor and I looked to get more work here and there to pay for it.
“We are tenant farmers and due to shuffles around on the Nawton Towers Estate we have been fortunate to take on more land neighbouring us and the farm now runs to 415 acres.“The farm today is a mix of sheep and 200 acres of combinable crops including winter wheat, winter barley, spring barley, oats. With this year’s weather we’ve had a brilliant yield, averaging 3.8 tonnes on wheat. The barley is all grown for feed and oats for human consumption.“The sheep are very much mum and dad’s enterprise.
“My main things areas of contracting now are square baling, drilling and driving the beet harvester. We run two square balers and had to hire another this year as the weather was that good, the corn was that dry, and the combines were getting massive outputs. “I did it myself. We lifted our own and ended up lifting some for a few neighbours that same year with this old two row machine. The following year we thought we maybe better getting a little bit better one, so I got a 3 row trailed one, with a 5 tonne tank on it. In three years we were lifting for various other people on the estate.“A good friend of mine, Alec Lunn was lifting beet and decided he was going to concentrate on other things.
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