Auchernack Farm, I G Smith & Partners

27/03/2026

22/03/2026

A cold start to the year but things are improving all the time! Our November-January born calves out enjoying the dry conditions and thriving. The muck is on with thanks to D J Nicolson providing the horse power. Weigh cells reading just over 400 tonnes of fym spread in little under 8 hours is serious out put. A new addition the fleet home as well with a extremely low houred 6330 whilst the old 6320 is away being mended, but with 17,600 hours on her in 22 years of service its done not bad! Even managed a trip to Murrayfield to watch a fantastic game of rugby 😎

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 😁