County Antrim
Ballymena, Ballymoney, Antrim, Ballycastle, Larne, Ballyclare, Crumlin, Randalstown, Ahoghill, Cullybackey, Armoy, Loughgiel.
Clyde Agri Contracts Ltd (Clyde Contracts)
Clyde Agri Contracts Ltd, trading as Clyde Contracts, is a family-run contracting business at Straid near Ballyclare, Co. Antrim. Run by Stephen Clyde, it provides silage, wholecrop and maize harvesting, reseeding, ploughing and hedge cutting as well as slurry spreading with both umbilical systems and tankers. The business covers the greater Larne and East Antrim area, travelling up to about 25 miles for slurry work.
D.J. O'Neill Agri Contracts
D.J. O'Neill Agri Contracts is a baling-focused agricultural contractor serving the Ballymena, Ballymoney and Ballycastle areas of Co. Antrim. It uses a McHale Fusion 3 baler-wrapper to make round bale silage, hay and straw in one pass, and also offers mowing with a Lely mower conditioner and forage raking with a McHale twin-rotor rake.
DJ McKay & Son
Third-generation, family-run agricultural contractor based at Shankbridge, Ballymena, established by John James McKay in 1969 and now run by David (John) McKay with sons James and William. Offers a complete contracting service from silage, barley and forage work to slurry/dung spreading, ploughing, sowing, hedge-cutting, drainage and stone crushing.
Gray Agri Contracts
Family-run agricultural contractor based at Dunadry, Co. Antrim, run by David Gray with his father John. It provides silage cutting, baling, slurry spreading, ploughing and reseeding, and runs a dairy farm alongside the contracting business.
IJ Lynn & Sons Ltd
IJ Lynn & Sons Ltd is a family-run earthworks and drainage contractor based on the Glenshesk Road outside Ballymoney. The business undertakes drainage and groundworks with tracked machines and groundworks crews, working on sites across Northern Ireland and further afield. It maintains an active Facebook page with recent job, equipment and recruitment updates.
J. Wilson Agri Contracts
Agricultural contractor working around Ballymoney and Armoy in Co. Antrim, offering slurry spreading, reseeding, sowing, silage and ploughing, including specialist potato ploughing. Active on Facebook.
Kirkpatrick Agri Contractors
Agricultural contractor based at Cullybackey, Ballymena, founded in 1994 by Jonathan Kirkpatrick and run with his brother Robert. Provides silage, round-baling, slurry spreading, fertilising, sowing and combining, with about 90% of customers within a 15-mile radius.
Marshall Agri Contracts
Marshall Agri Contracts is a Daniel Marshall-run agricultural contractor operating from the Templepatrick area of Co. Antrim. It covers most farm work including mowing, tedding, rowing, round baling and wrapping, silage trailer and dump trailer work, spraying, ploughing and seedbed preparation. The business also hedge cuts, chops straw and offers rush mulching with a machine mounted on a 13-tonne digger.
McCarroll Plant Hire Ltd
McCarroll Plant Hire is an agricultural and general plant hire business based at Dunloy/Cloughmills in north Antrim, hiring equipment across Ballymena, Ballymoney and Antrim. Its agricultural range includes tractor-driven implements such as a shredder, stoner, mole plough, bale lifter and post driver, alongside building and gardening equipment. The company (NI630772) is active and its hire website is live in 2026.
McCloskey Bros Agricultural Contractors
Family-run contractor based at Loughgiel in the Glens of Antrim, run by brothers Karl and Brian McCloskey, specialising in umbilical slurry spreading, fertiliser spreading, baling and hedge cutting. The brothers operate 2,500 metres of umbilical pipe and a fleet of ten tractors across Loughgiel, Armoy, Ballymoney, Dunloy and Ballycastle.
McConaghy Contracts (R McConaghy & Son)
McConaghy Contracts is a long-established family contracting business based at Dunseverick near Bushmills, run by the McConaghy family and marking over 70 years in business. It carries out self-propelled grass silage and wholecrop harvesting, combining and ploughing, together with a substantial slurry operation using umbilical systems and a large nurse tank. National machinery titles Grassmen and profi have featured the business and its fleet in recent years.
McGuckian Brothers Ltd
McGuckian Brothers Ltd is a family-run business based at Rasharkin near Ballymoney that describes itself as undertaking all aspects of agriculture together with excavation and grounds work contracts. The company was incorporated in 2017 and its Facebook page has built a following of around 3,700. Filings confirm it continues to trade, with accounts made up to August 2025 and its 2025 confirmation statement on record.
Rutledge Contracts
Rutledge Contracts is a Co. Antrim agricultural contracting business run by Darragh Rutledge from the Ballinderry area, about five miles from Lisburn. It focuses on silage and slurry work using forage wagons, two balers, slurry tankers and an umbilical system, and also offers reseeding, sowing, digging and fencing. The business runs a team of seven year round and, since 2023, has operated a specialised slurry equipment sales and service arm, Clover Agri Sales.
Speedy Farms Agricultural Contracts
Speedy Farms Agricultural Contracts is a mid-Antrim farm contracting business based at Tannaghmore Road outside Antrim town. It offers umbilical slurry piping with a 12-metre dribble bar, ferry tanker and booster pump work, alongside slurry tanker and slurry mixing services. The firm also provides GPS-controlled fertiliser sowing, mowing, rowing, buckraking, harvesting and trailer work, tedding, roller spiking, digger work and dump trailer hire.
William Patton Agricultural Contractor Ltd
William Patton Agricultural Contractor Ltd is an active Ballyclare-based agricultural contracting company registered at Calhame Road, Ballyclare, Co. Antrim. The business carries out general farm contracting and operates tractors and manure spreaders on local farmland. It has traded since 2012 and files micro-entity accounts.