Once just a normal farmer, Mr Scudamore became the “high-powered” chairman of the company, leading it to success not only in the county, but across the globe.
In 1980, the Hereford Times reported that Mr Scudamore had been poring over his business accounts when a friend remarked that he should use his computer to complete the laborious task.
His attempt was so successful that the company went on to deal with the business sent in from over 2,000 farmers from across the country.
That year, it was said that he had just returned from jetting off to America and Australia, where branches of the company were to be established.
Along with dealing with construction on farms, having helped build new outbuildings across 170 in Britain, the company also owned five farms in the UK, which had all become “highly computerised”.
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A year previously, Mr Scudamore had received a silver award from high street bank, Barclays, in a new equipment competition.
In 1983, the company expanded further when it joined forces with one of the UK’s largest agriculture companies, ICI Agriculture, to offer customers a new service to better monitor business performance, through unique recording, monitoring and planning systems.
The system would look at purchases, sales, stock valuations, payroll, and VAT, all fed into a central computer system.
The next year, the company won one of the top awards at the Royal Show in Stoneleigh, gaining a coveted “award of merit” for its development work aimed at improving weather protection in farm buildings.
The award came for “galebreaker” (now its own successful company owned by the Scudamore family), which was designed to give protection above farm buildings’ doors, but maintain ventilation.
“Before this development, we did supply timber-framed panels covered with an extruded plastic mesh,” development director, Paul Adshead said.
“However, the main problem was that the frame was heavy and was prone to warping. We looked for an alternative material that was more suitable.”
In 1988, the firm waved goodbye to its office in Brampton Road, Ross-on-Wye, with its new chapter to begin just over the county border in Mitcheldean
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The Hereford Times reported that this move would see 45 employees move to the new headquarters, where an additional 29 workers would be taken on.
“It is with great regret that we are leaving Ross, but we simply had no choice,” Mr Scudamore said.
“We needed 21,000 square feet of space for our expansion, but there was simply nothing going locally.
“At one time, we hoped the county council would let us have the then-empty Northside School, but this came to nothing.”