PRIDE AND PASSION

David was born in the area around Crieff in Perth and Kinross, and comes from a farming background. He said: “My grandfather had a farm, so I was used to being around tractors and machinery from a young age. My first experience of driving a tractor was when I was about six years old. It was lifting stones in a field behind the wheel of a grey Fergie. My father and uncle were doing the lifting, and all I had to do was steer the Fergie in a straight line. My father would stop the tractor every time we came to the end of a row.

“I didn’t get the opportunity to do much ploughing, before I went to agricultural college. That came later, once I had got a job. I have worked with a number