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Luffness Mains Farm Gallery

Spring

Spring is a busy period at the start of the season, we prepare the ground, plant potatoes and drill spring cereal crops.

  • Chitting potato seed
  • Stone and clod Removing
  • Drilling wheat
  • Irrigating the fields
  • The potato planter
  • Ridging potato beds
  • Seed potatoes in the planter
  • The potato planter
  • The fields being planted
  • The fields being planted
  • Destoning
  • Ridging beds ready for destoning
  • Destoning
  • Planting in the dark
  • Preparing potato land for planting

Summer

Summer at Luffness Mains usually consists of crop maintenance and growing.  We use irrigation when required to enhance crop growth and quality.  Early potato crops are harvested from June.

  • The potato crop growing in summer
  • Careful examination of the crop is crucial
  • The potatoes growing in the fields with our storage sheds in the background
  • Fertilising the crop
  • Our cold storage unit
  • Growing potatoes
  • Growing potatoes
  • Growing potatoes
  • Growing wheat
  • The first signs of growth from the potato crop
  • Irrigating the fields to ensure good growth
  • Irrigating the fields to ensure good growth
  • Irrigating the fields to ensure good growth
  • Irrigating the fields to ensure good growth
  • Irrigation pipes
  • Allan and Geert inspecting the crop
  • Allan and Geert inspecting the crop
  • The pulverised potato crop
  • The pulverising process
  • Pulverising the potato crop with a tractor
  • The pulverising attachment for the tractor
  • Sampling the crop to ensure high standards are maintained
  • Sampling the crop to ensure high standards are maintained
  • Sampling the crop to ensure high standards are maintained

Autumn

Autumn is the busiest period on the farm, the main crop of potatoes are lifted from the middle of September through to the middle of October, making the most of the dry weather. September is also the month for combining the Winter and Spring Wheat. As the fields are cleared by the combine and potato harvester we take the opportunity to drill and cultivate for next year’s winter cereals crops.

  • Combine unloading
  • Combining the wheat crop on a sunny autumn day
  • The combine harvester harvesting the wheat crop
  • Drilling in dry conditions
  • The drilling process
  • Potato harvesting
  • Potato harvesting
  • Potato harvesting
  • Potato harvesting
  • Ploughing and drilling
  • Cultivating using RTK GPS technology
  • OSR drill
  • Combining winter wheat - view from the cab
  • Harvesting early greentop potatoes
  • Loading boxes in the field for immediate use by the customer
  • The harvester

Winter

Winter at Luffness Mains has some very short days with long hours of darkness, and cold and damp weather. Our potatoes and wheat are in storage throughout the winter months. This time of year is quiet on the farm until we start grading seed potatoes in January and putting into our chitting sheds for planting from March. We occasionally experience snow, but winter frosts are normal.

  • Winter on the farm
  • Campton Tower in January 2010
  • Loading grain
  • Cold storage of potatoes
  • Potato cold store
  • Loading Grain from Store
  • Potato Storage Boxes

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