The MF 8 S 205 principally works with a 5000 litre, 30m sprayer, also applying liquid fertiliser and providing back-up for other tasks, while the bigger machine takes care of all the fertiliser spinning and around 20 per cent of primary cultivations. “But, going back, we have run a couple of Massey 1200s!” “This is our third consecutive round with Massey as the main tractors,” Tom reports. Today, the principal sources of power here are a pair of Massey Ferguson tractors – an MF 8 S 205 Dyna 7 and an MF 8 S 265 Dyna 7. The business employs two full-time tractor drivers, with a casual brought in for harvest. Field sizes vary between 3ha and 52ha, producing combinable crops and sugar beet.
