New Holland CR twin-rotor combine harvesters: … being no more than a tweaked New Holland TF. The firm first leaked details that it was working on a new rotary combine to replace its TF series back in 1998, although it wasn’t until 2002 that the all-new CR960 and CR980 models reached customers. Five seasons on, some of the earliest CRs are now starting to appear on the second-hand market. James de Havilland reports