Intensive Farming Operation Requires High Output Machinery
Home Farm Nacton in Suffolk uses the 5.6m Major Cyclone to enhance overall field performance and maintain soil health for its intensive cropping operation. “We are custodians of this very valuable farming land and it’s incumbent on us to ensure we maintain the health, the productivity...
Major Cyclone is Fit for the King of Vegetables
The Major Cyclone turns woody asparagus into fine mulch, thereby improving crop performance for Koteles Farms in Ontario, Canada. Asparagus farming is a year-round management process for Koteles Farms Inc. The fourth-generation farming family harvests fresh asparagus spears from late April to the end of July....
Cover Crops and Major Cyclone Central to Georgia Farmer’s Diverse Cropping System
Lyons, Georgia farmer and Chairperson of the Vidalia Onion Committee Aries Haygood is all smiles when he harvests 750 acres of the Vidalia onions from his sandy soils in east central Georgia. Onions are Haygood’s winter cash crop. “We plant our onion seed beds in...
New equipment has its place across two operations
New 6.3m (20-ft) Cyclone helps Wilson County, North Carolina farmer Thomas Webb successfully balance labour and equipment demands between mixed crops including corn, tobacco, peppers and cucumbers. Armed with a Field Crops Technology degree from NC State University, the fifth generation farmer came home after college,...
Balancing demand and crop rotation guides North Carolina family farm
Major Cyclone helps family save over $2800 alone this year. When brothers Wyatt and Frank Scott returned home to their Lucama, North Carolina family farm after earning degrees from NC State University in 2016, they planted 18 acres of sweet potatoes. This year, 200 acres of...
Combat insect and crop disease post harvest
Harvest season is in full swing. Besides handling all the post harvest processing, now is the time to manage all the crop residue. It means early preparation to remove stalk stubble so insects like corn borers and leafrollers have no chance to leave everlasting damage...
The Mighty Cyclone crushes crop stubble and competition
Major Cyclone offers strength, stamina and value for fifth-generation farmers in Saffron Walden Peter and Sian Wombwell run Wombwell Farms based at Rectory Farm in Ickleton, near the market town of Saffron Walden, with their two sons, William and James. The farm and farm contracting business...