When Wiltshire farmer’s daughter Fenella Parker married New Zealand farmer Jonathan ‘Johnny’ White, there was a surprise form of transport waiting outside to take them to the wedding breakfast - a brand new Case IH Puma 150 provided by local dealer GCS Agricentre.

Fenella’s parents, Harry and Jane Parker, farm 750 acres on the Stourhead Estate near Warminster. They rely on Case IH Magnum 7220 and Maxxum 5150 tractors, together with an Axial-Flow 2188 combine harvester, to help them produce oilseed rape, winter wheat, winter barley and spring barley, as well as grassland for a herd of pedigree Limousin cattle and a flock of Exmoor sheep.

Jonathan farms with his father Jeff and brother Thomas on 1,185 acres at Edgeworth Eiffle, Ashburton, south of Christchurch on New Zealand’s South Island. Their fully-irrigated property on the Canterbury Plains grows wheat, barley, ryegrass, fescue, clover, peas, radish, linseed, kohl rabi, chives and Chinese brasicas. Like the Parkers, they rely on a fleet of Case IH machinery, including Magnum 280, Puma 225, Maxxum 140 and Case 895 tractors, plus an Axial-Flow 7230 combine.

Fenella and Johnny met in June 2013 when Harry and Jane Parker hosted a visit by seven New Zealanders, who stayed with them overnight and toured the farm the following day. Fenella, the youngest of five daughters, was working as a teaching assistant at the time and came home to meet her parents’ international guests.

Nick Pike from GCS Agricentre said: “The Parkers have been good customers for many years, so we were delighted to be able to provide them with one of the latest Case IH tractors to use on this happy occasion.”