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52 CROOME FARM FEB/MAR 2019 • farmers-mart.co.uk New Holland Dealer Of The Year 2018 PROUD TO SUPPORT OUR LOCAL YORKSHIRE FARMERS Robert D Webster Ltd are the main New Holland dealer for East Yorkshire and also covering parts of North and South Yorkshire. We specialise in all New Holland agricultural equiptment, new and used, and have a wide range of products to choose from. We also stock Maschio, Manitou, Sumo, KRM, Polaris, Oxdale and more. HOWDEN | 01430 430624 KILHAM | 01262 420226 OWSTWICK | 01964 670224 www.robertdwebster.co.uk Best Wishes + Good Luck to Keith and Nick Clark MK AgriTech Welding & Fabrication Specialists Based in York, Serving East & North Yorkshire • Welding & Fabrication • Repairs & Rebuilds • Structural Steelwork Premium Livestock Nutritional Maintenance • Energy/Feed/Mineral Tubs • Mineral Supplements • Protein Concentrates • Mineral/Copper Block-Salts • Liquid Feeds • Northern Super Coarse Mix • Milk Replacers • Thrivade Drench • Grass & Root Seeds Richard 07778 428716 Alastair 07776 031713 Robin 07770 845361 www.northernnutrition.co.uk • Wrote Iron Gates & Railings • Bespoke Machinery & Projects Thanking Keith and Nick for all the business and support and wishing them all the best for the future. BRINGING ON THE SIMMENTALS AT CROOME Chris Berry talks with Keith and Nick Clark at Sledmere. Visit our website www.mkagritech.co.uk Call 01653 658 438 E. [email protected] Franks Curtis Sales www.f • rankscurtis.co.uk Parts • Service Offering a full range of quality new and used machinery from Massey Ferguson, Strautmann, Teagle and OPICO and many more... Franks Curtis Ltd, Beansheaf Ind Park, Kirby Misperton, Malton, N. Yorks, YO17 6BG Tel: [phone] | www.frankscurtis.co.uk Proud to be suppliers to Keith and Nick Clark, wishing them continued success. SIMMENTALS have become the new passion for Keith Clark and his son Nick in the past eight years at Croome Farm, near Sledmere where the family has farmed since Keith’s grandfather Watson Parkin Clark moved from Kirkby Grange between Sledmere and Duggleby where he had farmed with his brothers since 1910. ‘The farm business was known as Clark Brothers but it was grandfather who was the main brains behind it,’ says Keith. ‘When they passed away in the 60s it was my father Cyril and his brother, my uncle Ernest who took over at Croome until he bought a farm in Pocklington. I took over the tenancy when my father died in 1984 but I’d been running it for a while before due to dad’s dementia. I’m 75 now and Brian my brother is a partner in the farm business, but it’s Nick who now runs the farm and is in the process of taking over the tenancy.’ ‘We used to have milk cows when I was still at school and had pigs, sheep and cattle on this predominantly arable farm of 412 acres. For a while we went down to just sheep as our only livestock operation, but when I had a gall bladder operation in 2000 we sold the sheep. It turned out a blessing