One of the largest arable farming operations to be established in the United Kingdom in the last half of the previous century was started by Tony Strawson. He was the manager of an extensive farm before buying his own operation, which he gradually built up.
In 2002, his son Mark and daughter-in-law Jane took the helm and now the third generation, Harry, is helping to run the business that is currently 4,500 hectares of farmed land. The area extends from Suffolk up to Inverness, with the main growing land in Suffolk, Norfolk, Shropshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and Scotland, with the company’s vegetable packhouse based in Nottinghamshire.
Despite advances, the past has not been forgotten, and the family likes to remember the machines that were used as part of the business. In the 1970s the farm was blue, with seven Ford 7600s running alongside a couple of 5000s, a 7000,
