Auchernack Farm, I G Smith & Partners

23/07/2025

A busy few weeks on the croft! Mowers, combi baler and stacking squad been busy at silage. A few hundred bales of hay made for ourselves and others about the valley with a few glorious days in the last 2 weeks. Delighted to also be given the opportunity to trial the SKAI Spot Sprayer in preparation for our next Monitor Farm open day. Fantastic piece of kit which will be on demonstration at our open day on the 29th. After taking the hay we had a rejuvenation mixture sown to extend the life of some wader mown grassland in another 5 year scheme. Thanks to Rich at Lethendry with his Vredo Over Seeder for getting it in for us.

Also took delivery of our new 2500 gallon slurry tanker. Slurry is a big part of our system and in the last few years has enabled us to half our granular fertiliser costs with the use of digestate diluted with cow slurry. A 9’5m dribble bar with 800 tyres to reduce compaction making it easier and more efficient to get the digestate on to the second cut silage ground.

18/06/2025

First cut done and dusted with a few bales to wrap up in the coming days. Nasty skies but fortunately the rain stayed away 🤩

01/06/2025

• S I L A G E S E A S O N 2 0 2 5 •

The rains finally come and crops are starting to pull themselves together finally! If anyone is looking for help with their silage this year, be it full or part jobs we can assist with all aspects from mowing to stacking and everything in between.

Services are as follows:

• Front and back mower conditioner
• 6 rotor tedder
• Rake
• John Deere C441R Combi Baler 12-24 knife chopper (standard baling also available)
• JCB Loadall/Tractor and loader with 32ft bale trailer on floatation tyres for shifting and stacking

Friendly service and carried out to a high standard 🤗

If you wish to get in touch please feel free to contact Calum on 07963328762 or Hamish on 07568352373

20/05/2025

Spring update from Auchernack incoming! With the exceptional spell of weather that came with the month of April it made life alot easier to crack on with spring work. Barley in a month earlier than last year and calving very nearly over. Also thanks to Monitor Farms Scotland we were given the opportunity to trial a virtual fencing technology from Norwegian company Monil. A very easy to use and after nearly a month in use, a very effective way to manage cattle to utilise greener areas of rough pasture not normally available to us. Monil will be present at our next open meeting if anyone is keen to learn more!

20/05/2025

23/01/2025

First crop of Shorthorn x Steers ready for Thainstone tomorrow. 12-13 month old. Wormed ✅ Respoval RSP vaccinated ✅ BVD accredited ✅

23/01/2025

15/12/2024

Spreading Christmas cheer throughout the valley 🎅🏻 we’ll be taking part along with our many neighbours for what should be a bit of festive fun 😁

01/12/2024

A few photo’s from a very wet, and unhelpful end to silage season and harvest. Another difficult year but always an opportunity for trying new things when the sun eventually decides to appear ☀️🌧️

15/09/2024

A few photos of years gone by. A noticeable change in the machinery over the years

27/07/2024

Some of the girls with their Shorthorn X calves at foot enjoying the Saturday sunshine. Silage season continuing to be awkward weather wise but we’re getting there! 😎☀️☘️🐮🚜

28/06/2024

First cut silage in the clamp with a few more acres of bales to do. A few silage jobs carried out for some customers on the contracting side with a brief window of good weather as well. Looking like another catchy season once again! Big thankyou to Peter Smart Contracting for providing the shinny metal and top class service for the last 25 years. Cows also enjoying the good growing season so far with plenty of grass about 🐮