Customer Stories

Major Cyclone Delivers Efficiency Gains for Cotton Grower Sam Stanley purchased a Major Cyclone Rotary Cutter to chop cotton stalks on his 2,350-acre farm outside Levelland, Texas. The 30-ft Cyclone covers 10 rows in one pass, giving him 20% more coverage in one day with one less tractor and driver for immediate savings on his operation. Texas cotton producer Sam Stanley approaches farming with keen calculation. Being inefficient is not...

Major Cyclone is Fit for the King of Vegetables The Major Cyclone turns woody asparagus into fine mulch, thereby improving crop performance for Koteles Farms in Ontario, Canada. Asparagus farming is a year-round management process for Koteles Farms Inc. The fourth-generation farming family harvests fresh asparagus spears from late April to the end of July. The rest of the year is spent on weed control, growing asparagus crowns grown from...

Cover Crops and Shredder Central to Georgia Farmer’s Diverse Cropping System   Lyons, Georgia farmer and Chairperson of the Vidalia Onion Committee Aries Haygood is all smiles when he harvests 750 acres of the Vidalia onions from his sandy soils in east central Georgia. Onions are Haygood’s winter cash crop. “We plant our onion seed beds in September. All our seed is grown in a confined area, and we’ll start...

Major Cyclone is the Apple of Medel Orchards’ Eye Investment in new 9-ft Major Cyclone at E&B Medel Orchards improves quality and productivity, ensuring the third-generation fruit farm in Ontario retains its reputation for the next generation. “Quality of product is dominant in everything we do. This is a complete way of life for our entire family. We love what we do and it shows in our harvested fruit products,”...

Balancing crops to demand and rotation guides Scott Brothers Farms toward growth Major Cyclone helps family save over $2800 alone this year. When brothers Wyatt and Frank Scott returned home to their Lucama, North Carolina family farm after earning degrees from NC State University in 2016, they planted 18 acres of sweet potatoes. This year, 200 acres of the root vegetable will be hand harvested off of 46” beds and...

New equipment has its place across two operations New 20-ft Cyclone helps Wilson County, North Carolina farmer Thomas Webb successfully balance labor and equipment demands between mixed crops including corn, tobacco, peppers and cucumbers. "Even at 7 mph, it performed amazingly well no matter on which corn field we were working.”  Armed with a Field Crops Technology degree from NC State University, the fifth generation farmer came home after college, and...

Focusing on orchard floor maintenance delivers higher yield for macadamia nut grower   Orchard growers around the world strive to produce and sell the best crops possible. The steps a grower takes to create the perfect crop changes according to local conditions, but making sound decisions about the orchard floor could be the difference between a high quality yield and a low value one.   “We get paid top dollar...

Boyd Arthur uses the Cyclone to stimulate grass growth – and reduce winter feed costs – on his 500-acre pedigree Tropical Angus cattle farm on the Sunshine Coast in Australia.   On the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia is the town of Noosa Hinterland, which is surrounded by stunning beaches and areas of outstanding natural beauty. Nestled in that countryside, Boyd Arthur rears some 200 head of pedigree Tropical Angus...

Third-generation Beef farmer Frank Murphy uses the MAJOR Cyclone cutter to increase efficiency and profitability on his 500-acre Glen South Farm. Precision agriculture enables farmers to make informed decisions about their businesses and Frank Murphy represents the best in his class. One of the most advanced beef production units in Ireland, the 500 acres of Glen South Farm outside Banteer, Co Cork sets high standards in systems and mechanization. Farming...