The Ridgepress 6×30/40 is a British-built high-quality, high-output machine designed specifically to reduce the amount of greening of the potato tuber, both before and after desiccation, where sunlight can penetrate cracks that can form around the tops of the rows.

We offer a choice of a 600mm x 600mm low pressure “turf tyre” for soft / sandy soils or a smooth steel flat roller for harder row tops (typically used on silt soils where cracking of the row top is more common). The roller units are individually sprung and will ensure that you receive equal and optimum pressure on each row, which, when then placed upon the row, will either re-seal the crack or allow fine soil to fall through the crack covering the exposed crop (as shown below).

The adjacent pictures show a typical before and after effect on medium-silt soils where irrigation/heavy rain has melted the soil and created a cap on the row top. Drying out of the soil often causes cracking and subsequent greening of the tuber. The Ridgepress gently crushes a fine layer of soil and prevents the ingress of light.