Contractor Comment: Foragers parked as Lexion finishes maize
Rank autumn weather has made for a rotten maize harvest, but with a tracked combine and Conspeed header at his disposal, all was not lost for Tim Russon.
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Rank autumn weather has made for a rotten maize harvest, but with a tracked combine and Conspeed header at his disposal, all was not lost for Tim Russon.
In the second instalment of our new Contractor Comment series, Oliver Mark gets the lowdown on machinery comings and goings at P Russon & Sons.
Tim Russon © Tim Scrivener 13 years after our first What’s in Your Shed visit, we return to find out what has changed in the fleet of Farmers Weekly’s 2020 Contractor of the Year winner, Tim Russon. Business facts: P Russon and Sons, New Farm, Burton, Lincoln Main services Grass harvesting (1,000ha), maize harvesting (4,000ha), wholecrop (800ha), combining (600ha), miscanthus harvesting (1,000ha), baling (20,000 bales/year), muckspreading, digestate application Home farm 120ha How did you get started? I hated milking cows so, when I returned to my father’s fa...