Choosing the tractors needed to revitalise a 10,000ha Scottish estate is an unenviable task, but for manager Billy Fotheringham the move to a leased Fendt fleet is working well. Blackford Estates used to run five combine harvesters in the 1980s, but its productivity has since reduced significantly. The home of Highland Spring Water, the estate also has an 18-hole golf course, 3,000ha of ploughable ground and 5,000ha of grazing land, 1,000ha of woodland. “The estate was essentially put to sleep, but in the last 15 years we have been gradually bringing it back to life. We are growing 200ha of…