Our Services
Agricultural Services in the Scottish Borders
Our Services
Established in 1980 R L Smith and Sons Ltd is the leading agricultural contractors to the area. Now providing a waste management, recycling and skip hire service to the Scottish Borders and North Northumberland.We offer a complete range of agricultural and skip hire services, carrying out the following:
- Potato Planting
- Irrigation
- Potato Harvesting
- Hedge Cutting
- Lime Spreading
- Green Burning
Potato Planting
When planting we use the most up-to-date machinery, including the three bed system. This is satellite guided and is ideal for the use of planting your main crop as well as salad and organic plants.
We use computerised reels when irrigating your crops and offer the option of rain guns or booms. Our harvesting machinery can be either self propelled or be equipped with wheeled drive, so you can choose the one that fits your crop harvesting needs the best.
Greenburning
We are able to carry out desiccation by the use of greenburning for conventional and organic crops.
Hedge Cutting
Hedge cutting has the option of us using circular saws on long reach cutters. Verge bank and ditch mowing is also offered by us.
Lime Spreading
We deliver and spread it where it is needed using low ground pressure machines.
Plant Hire
We provide both long and short term machine and operator hire. We have various sizes of track and wheeled excavators available. All of our machines are available with a breaker and we are also able to offer heavy duty 14 tonne dump trailers.
Potato Harvesting
Using self propelled or up to date conventional wheel drive.
Irrigation
Using computerised reels with option of rain gun or booms.