Luke Furse (Agriculture Division) have over 25 years of experience specialising in all areas of agricultural contracting. We offer a professional, reliable service with modern equipment, including:

	Ploughing, seed bed preparation and planting.
	pH testing.
	Umbilical slurry pumping and muck spreading.
	Fertiliser spreading.
	Spraying.
	Crop growing and management.
	Grass, maize and wholecrop harvesting.
	Corn drying, grain storage and haulage.
	Silaging, baling and wrapping.
	Hedge cutting.
	Topping.
	All associated works.

All our units are linked by a private radio system to ensure safety on site and minimise down time and double tracking.

We know our customers have very demanding work schedules and that working with weather cycles can be difficult. When you call us we get to work immediately scheduling specific machines with experienced operators and delivering them on time. You can depend on us to meet those all-important harvest deadlines.

If you require any services not listed above please contact us. We offer free no-obligation quotations.

Crop Growing

We grow a large quantity of cereal crops each year including organic oats for human consumption, common oats, wheat and barley. These crops are stored in our new CMI-certified grain store and delivered throughout the South West with our own articulated transport fleet. The straw is baled and delivered to local farmers.

We grow forage maize and organic crops on contract for local farmers.

Cleaning records of combine harvesters are available when changing from non-organic to organic crops.

The crop of Miscanthus in the picture below was harvested by Luke Furse Contractors on 7th April 2012 using a 12 row easy collect header. This can be used for heating or bedding. The crop yielded 4T to the acre. Miscanthus grows year upon year with no inputs and is a very profitable form of income for farmers.

	Yields well in heavy clay land.
	Planting similar to maize.
	A crop that lasts for 20 years plus.
	Little attention apart from weed control.
	Grants available from Natural England.

Winter Fodder

We supply top quality Round and Square Bale Haylage, Hay, Wheat, Barley and Oat Straw.

Agricultural Contracting

We provide a complete service from plough to harvest with the latest technology. Our agricultural machinery includes:

	Combine harvesters.
	High capacity forage harvesters.
	Umbilical slurry pumping up to a distance of 1.5 miles.
	A fleet of up to 20 4WD tractors with implements covering all seasons.

Lime and sea sand form a large part of our tillage programme. We supply and spread large tonnages throughout the season. pH testing is carried out in-house providing recommendations for application rates to customers.

Lime Spreading – LGP Landrive Transpreader in action

Lime being applied at the rate of 2 tonnes per acre – this field was later planted with Spring Barley

Please contact us to discuss your requirements or arrange a free, no obligation quotation.

Combine on Tracks

With minimal ground pressure and outstanding traction the Claas Lexion 410 is a light combine with each track having a footprint 2.1m long by 770mm wide with a transport width of only 3m. This avoids soil compaction and damage to fields.

Your crops can be harvested in these difficult times – "keep on tracking".

Corn Drying, Grain Storage & Haulage

Our new high capacity grain drying facility has proved very successful with most crops having to be dried these days. This means we can combine and dry your grain in the same day from our CMI Grainstore working with our 15m Public Weighbridge.

Grain bought and sold.

15000 tonne GTAS approved flat store available. Now storing grain for some of the largest grain distributors.

Grain cleaning and rolling service. Your grain can be delivered back to farm.

Artic grain haulage with task assured trailers also available.

Providing a professional service for our customers – "keeping it cool".

GTAS Assured Artic Transport from field to store

Chaser Bin off loading into artic transport – fast movement of grain to store

Grain loaded out of store

Grain storage – 32,000 square foot flat store

Wheat in store

New single product grainstore

Deep land drainage forms a large part of winter maintenance work on agricultural farmland.

A trench 2 feet wide and up to 8 feet deep with our purpose built automatic pipe layer running in the trench laying perforated pipe from 60mm up to 160mm. The pipe layer protects the pipe at all times. Also preventing personnel entering the trench at any time. Land water is generally found between the clay and shale layers.

Trenches are backfilled on completion, after the trenches have sunk. Drains are levelled off prior to ploughing and reseeding. Outfall pipes are installed and drainage record plans are drawn for future reference.

Ditch cleaning and hedge rebuilding are also part of the service.

Trench digging and pipe laying

Breaking into underground land water

This newly installed 15 metre Weighbridge with state of the art technology will weigh a fully loaded articulated lorry complete with trailer.

A digital print out system is electronically operated. Weigh cells ensure accurate and precise weighing.

This model, Westco Titan, is the largest model currently in production.

Westco Titan 15 metre Weighbridge