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Robertson is the oldest part of the Breede River wine valley — wide blocks, deep alluvial soils, lucerne tucked between vines, and brandy stills running year-round. We run contract spraying for the wineries, baling for the lucerne fields, and we know which farm road actually drains after a winter rain.
Robertson farms tend to be larger than further down the valley — single blocks of 30 to 80 hectares are common, which means an under-row spray run that's calibrated wrong loses real money fast. We turn up before sunrise, calibrate against the rate the farmer asked for, and the GPS trace shows up in the inbox the same evening. The wineries we work with audit their spray records every season; one PDF, attachable.
Three months of the year Robertson is harvesting wine and table grapes simultaneously. Every tractor on the farm is committed. That's when contract baling on the lucerne side, and contract under-row spraying between the wine and grape harvests, becomes the difference between getting it done and watching it get away.
We come in from Gordon's Bay through Sir Lowry's Pass, across the Overberg, and down off the R60 — a 175 km run we make a couple of times a week through harvest. We're closer to Robertson than most contractors who advertise this far inland, and we don't pad the bill for travel.
We block out Robertson windows weeks in advance during harvest. If you've got a baling or spraying job coming up, the earlier you call the better the slot you get.
Pick up the phone. One call usually settles it.