Tractor & Machinery

FIVE MINUTES WITH… Jimmy Orr

Tell us about yourself…

After leaving school I worked on the family nursery in the Clyde Valley, Lanarkshire, that grew two acres of tomatoes and five acres of lettuce, brassicas and leeks. I also helped my neighbour at harvest time, who was an agricultural contractor, with baling and carting grain.

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