With a family business established over many generations, Martin Watkins has farmed the 250 acres at Moys Hill Farm with his father at Westbury-on-Severn for just over 40 years. The farm focusses on home-grown forage for their 200 strong beef finishing unit, alongside growing cider apples for Bulmers Cider and a local cider making business.  Having purchased a Farmall 95C in 2018, Martin has never looked back as the Farmall packs a heavy punch in both the orchards and cattle sheds due to its flexibility and versatility.

“We purchased the Farmall 95C because we were looking for a tractor that was small enough to work in our 30 acres of orchards and some of our smaller cattle sheds but had the power and reliability we needed to go through the trees for spraying, topping, and shaking,” explains Martin.

“We grow 30 acres of wheat, which is rolled and fed to our beef finishing herd of 200 cattle, plus 25 acres of maize which is ensiled along with grass silage. Our aim is to provide quality home-grown forage to our beef cattle, which are purchased as stores and finished at 320-350kg deadweight at around two years of age.

“We also always had an excellent relationship, and service support from the team at Cotswolds Farm Machinery and as a result we have had Case IH tractors on this farm since the 1990’s although this is our first Farmall,” continues Martin. “We have not been disappointed - the Farmall delivers everything we need plus more, it’s always reliable. You can give it plenty of different jobs and it just seems to handle everything we throw at it. My favourite feature is its compactness, and the power that comes with it.”