Massey offers power back to the world’s smaller farmers

It’s good to see at least one of the multinational companies that bestride the world of food and farming turning its attention to the needs of smaller scale farmers.

That company is Massey Ferguson, which has taken more than six years and $350m (€271.5m) to develop its new global 4700 tractor range, which it is now rolling out across the world.

It will be a 60 to 130 horse power range, a modern but more basic range compared to the increasingly big and accordingly expensive tractors which dominate modern manufacturing.