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Ashton is the cooperative town — pack-houses, juice plants, and farms shipping into export programmes. The compliance load is real: every spray run has to land in the records exactly the way the auditor wants it. We do that work, and we hand back a PDF you can drop straight into the file.
Most of what's grown around Ashton ends up in a container heading north. Buyers and certification bodies want chain-of-custody on every spray application — what was applied, when, at what rate, on which block. Owner-on-site supervision plus GPS tracking covers the verification half. The PDF afterwards is what closes the loop.
Pre-harvest fruit fly bait spraying through stone fruit blocks, herbicide work in the vineyards, and round-baling on the lucerne and oat blocks that most farms keep going alongside. Less hay-mulching demand here than in Bonnievale; more programme spraying.
Ashton's pack-house schedule sets our week. We try to land in the morning, before the wind picks up off the Langeberg, and we work through to early afternoon. The R62 puts us 195 km from Gordon's Bay — about two and a quarter hours, traffic-permitting.
Programme work means windows. Tell us your block, your target rate, and your audit cadence — we'll match the run and send the records.
Pick up the phone. One call usually settles it.