In 1971, I began my farming career at the tender ... I was driving picking machines with a dozen kids lying on boards over a conveyor belt, or driving an open tractor pulling a green pea combine ...

Seventy years ago, a 25-horsepower tractor pulling a two-bottom plow or a small combine took hours, maybe days, to work anything larger than a small field. Today’s monster-sized farm ...

who runs a grass farm and a small suckler herd in Kent. “I’ve been involved in many of the rallies, and after taking a tractor to London last week, the kids wanted to know how it went,” he said.