"We don't just listen to the end user, we are the end user".

The Claydon family have been farming the heavy clay lands of Suffolk since the early 1900’s, Jeffery and Frank Claydon are the third generation to be farming the land now under the E.T. Claydon and Sons family partnership name, the brothers have been farming since 1970 and still farm the land in the present day. This is what makes Claydon Products unique; the fact that they are developed on a working farm by farmers for farmers and are truly tried and tested in real farming conditions in a real farm environment before they are brought to market.

The first Claydon product was the Claydon Yield-o-Meter invented by Mr. Jeffery Claydon in 1980, subsequently forming Claydon Yield-o-Meter Limited. Jeff’s vision was to create a grain monitoring device that could be fitted to almost any combine and would give accurate readings of how tonnes where being harvested by the combine, as opposed to using the traditional method of a weigh bridge, this was to become the first ever grain monitoring device to be fitted to a combine. The simple yet reliable method used by the Yield-o-Meter was highly accurate (within 0.2% accuracy) and because of the advances in computer based electronics at the time Jeff set out to devised a display for the combine cab that allowed the driver to manipulate the data giving them; T/hour, T/acre, Field data, Batch data, etc. readings at the touch of a button. This enabled the farmer to analyse data that they had previously had to guess helping them to determine high yielding crops and varieties much more easily than ever before, and giving the farmer an accurate reading of how much grain he had harvested that minute, hour, day month or year. The Yield-o-Meter has been fitted to many combines (mainly Class combines) through the UK and Europe and 1995 Claydon Yield-o-meter won an RASE Silver Medal.