Welcome
While the mindless morons who are nannying us to death worry about rusting farmyard machinery, the wildlife so vital to our survival is facing the biggest mass extinction since the dinosaurs!

A Scottish Fergie Feast
Pete Kelly travels to Cumnock, Ayrshire, to photograph haulage contractor Tom French’s newly-restored 1958 Massey-Ferguson 65 along with a quartet of other tractors from the Ferguson and Massey-Ferguson stable.

Spring Colours
Jerry Thurston is mightily impressed as he tries Bryan Marshall’s sweet-running, Dreyfuss-styled 1942 John Deere BN for size in Lincolnshire.

News
Including the announcement that John Moffitt’s world-famous Hunday Collection of Ferguson tractors and implements has been sold lock, stock and barrel to a Norfolk farmer and businessman.

There’s a Long, Hard Road a-Winding...
As donations and other gestures of support start to come in thick and fast, Pete Kelly brings an update on his planned 1,100-mile, ten-day cycling marathon in support of Help the Hospices, and tells how YOU can help this worthy cause.

Tractor Talk
The tree that grew right through a Fordson N, a Scots wedding and the brilliantly-hued crawler tractors at the New Zealand fishing port of Ngawi.

Bright Sparks in Perthshire
Renowned Highland writer and photographer Polly Pullar meets a highly-talented family with a knack of turning discarded scrap metal into awe-inspiring animal and other sculptures.

Kirwee Cracker!
Roger Hamlin reports from a fabulous tractor gathering in New Zealand.

Readers’ Letters

Diary Dates

An Eye for a Bargain
Noel Bridgeman reports from a fenland farm equipment sale at which 60 years of agricultural history went under the hammer.

Beyond the Apple Trees
James Faircliffe wistfully recalls his wartime childhood among the apple orchards of Cambridgeshire.

Confessions of a Fordson Fanatic
Josephine Roberts writes amusingly about her brother Pete’s passion for ‘Fordson Bachs’ on his North Wales smallholding.

Farming by the Fireside - Part Three
When Brian Howes came across some pre-war issues of The Farmer’s Home, a supplement to the well-loved Farmer & Stockbreeder magazine, it was like opening a window on Britain’s farming past.

Staffordshire Stunners!
Conditions were perfect when Alan Barnes travelled northwards from his Kentish home to visit a welcoming Staffordshire couple and photograph three beautifully-restored tractor classics.

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

Run of the Mills
Looking forward to the National Mills Weekend in May, Ann Garcia celebrates the history of the British wind and watermill.

A Yorkshire Tractor Trail
Alan Barnes finds himself searching for old tractors among the spectacular moors and dales of the White Rose County.

Circling Norfolk by Fordson
N Nigel Stennett-Cox reports on an eventful charity marathon around the perimeter of Norfolk trailing a c-c-cold caravan behind a Fordson tractor that’s been in the family for 45 years.

Memoirs of a Dairy Farmer
When J. R. Blake retired six years ago after a lifetime in dairy farming, he decided to put his memories to paper. We are delighted to include these excerpts in Tractor & Farming Heritage, with illustrations by Pete Wilford.

Rare Breeds Factfile
Marianne Thomas looks at the history of British Lop-Eared Pigs.

Wurzel & Gripper
Introducing Pete Wilford’s new cartoon about a vintage tractor enthusiast and his dog.

£1,000 Tractor Competition
Answer our four easy questions and you might win £1,000 towards the tractor of your choice.

All His Own Work!
On his 73rd birthday, Bernard Jeffs wheeled out a completely restored 1939 Foster threshing machine on which he’d carried out all the work himself. Keith Langston tells the story.

Reviews
A heart-warming video about the country life of Suffolk’s Peggy Cole kicks off our Reviews section this month.

Fleeced in 45 seconds!
Roger Hamlin reports from the world-famous Golden Shears International Championships in New Zealand, where the world’s best shearers can have the fleece off a sheep’s back before you can say: ‘Baa gum, that looks hard!

Keeping It in the Family
Now the part-owner of a traditional horse-drawn farm wagon, John Hobbs delves into the history of a Somerset wagon-building concern with which his own family was connected.

Welcome
While the mindless morons who are nannying us to death worry about rusting farmyard machinery, the wildlife so vital to our survival is facing the biggest mass extinction since the dinosaurs!

A Scottish Fergie Feast
Pete Kelly travels to Cumnock, Ayrshire, to photograph haulage contractor Tom French’s newly-re....