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Farmers impressed by diverse, high output mower

No two years are the same in farming, so when growers review stubble management plans each year, they can be assured the Major Cyclone can reliably cope with any programme, Major Equipment reckons. Three farmers share their experiences of using the Cyclone.

Peter Wombwell and his family in Saffron Walden farm some 3,000-acres along the Cambridgeshire and North Essex border. They run under the Higher Level Stewardship (HLS) scheme and are conscious about being environmentally responsible.

They purchased the 4.2m Major Cyclone to replace the flail mower on their diverse cropping regime.

“It handles all kinds of material – we’ve used it on maize stubble, cover-crop, grassland, and one particularly difficult application down the tramlines in oilseed rape; it just whizzed over that!” explains Peter. “Some of the plant breeders have trial plots situated on our land so we have to clear stubble effectively. The Major Cyclone makes short work of that task.”

Meanwhile, Home Farm Nacton uses the 5.6m Major Cyclone to enhance overall field performance and maintain soil health on 4,800-acres of land along the Orwell Estuary near Ipswich. “We are getting much higher output from the Major Cyclone,” says farm manager Andrew Williams. “It covers twice the area compared to the flail in the same amount of