County Londonderry
Derry, Coleraine, Limavady, Magherafelt, Maghera, Dungiven, Kilrea, Swatragh, Eglinton, Newbuildings, Castledawson, Portstewart.
Colin Ramsey Agricultural Contracting
Colin Ramsey Agricultural Contracting is a family-run contractor based at Aghadowey near Coleraine serving small and medium-sized community farms. Silage, mowing and baling are the core of the business, backed up by tanker slurry work, sub-soiling and digger work and drainage in the winter months. The business has been trading since around 2000 and operates its own tracked digger.
D Kelly Agri-Contracts and Groundswork
Family agricultural and groundworks contracting business run by Dylan and Darren Kelly from the Magherafelt/Draperstown area. Offers silage and baling, slurry spreading by tanker and by pipe/umbilical system with a 12m dribble bar and flow meter, hedge cutting, rush and heather cutting, and digger work from mini machines up to 13 tonnes with tree shear and mulcher attachments. Its public Facebook page is 'D Kelly agri-contracts and groundswork'.
Derek Mawhinney Agri Contracts
Agricultural contractor operating in the mid-Ulster area from Dunronan Road, Magherafelt. Offers hedge cutting and low-ground-pressure slurry spreading with a trailing-shoe tanker, and also provides cattle hoof trimming as a Dutch-trained hoof trimmer using a roll-over crush. Its public Facebook page is 'Derek Mawhinney Agri Contracts'.
Fields Agri Contracts
Family-run agricultural contractor based on the Cookstown Road at Moneymore, fronted by father-and-son Jim and Sam Fields and contracting in the Moneymore area for over 25 years. Cuts around 3,000 acres of pit silage a year and also carries out arable ploughing and sowing, slurry spreading, round baling, hedge cutting, mulching, and digger/drainage work for customers within roughly a 20-mile radius. Its public Facebook page is 'Fields Agri Contracts'.
G.Thompson Contracts
Small agricultural contracting business run by Gary Thompson from Magherafelt. It advertises hedge cutting, digger work and all other aspects of agricultural contracting to farms in the surrounding area. Its public Facebook page is 'G.Thompson Contracts'.
Gorthill Farm Contracting
Third-generation family agricultural contractor based at 19A Backhill Road, Eglinton, BT47 3JR, run by brothers Johnny and Ryan Boggs and descended from father Ernie and grandfather James. Runs a distinctive all-black fleet (Fendt tractors and a Claas Jaguar 980 forager) and provides silage/wholecrop, baling, slurry (tanker and umbilical), ploughing, sowing, dung spreading, spraying, combining and mulching. Also farms about 700 acres and operates an anaerobic digester.
Heathfield Contracting (Heathfield Agri Contracting)
Heathfield Contracting is a Garvagh-area agricultural contractor run by the Torrens family, known for slurry work, ploughing and reseeding. The business uses an Agriseeder to slot cover crops, fodder crops and grass mixes into the soil with minimum disturbance, and also carries out sub-soiling and slurry mixing and spreading. It has featured in the agricultural press and maintains a Facebook presence.
Hessin Bros
Long-established family contracting business based at Ballyloughan Road, Moneymore, operating across mid-Ulster since the late 1970s and now run by Harold and Wilbert Hessin with the next generation. Silage is its biggest contracting activity, alongside ploughing and sowing, umbilical slurry spreading, combining and baling, serving customers within about a 15-mile radius of Moneymore/Cookstown. It has a public Facebook page, 'Hessin bros'.
Killen Bros
Family contracting business based at Newbuildings, Co. Londonderry, run by Jonathan Killen and his brothers alongside the family dairy and beef farm. It covers the area from Omagh to Limavady and across to Dungiven with silage, slurry, reseeding, combining and tillage work.
Lagan Bros Agri Contractors
Family-run silage and forage contracting business based at Moneymore and founded in 2003 by Michael Lagan with his brothers Seamus and Paul, alongside father James and brother Noel. Harvests around 7,000 acres of grass each year, about 70% of it destined for biogas plants, and runs a John Deere fleet led by the first 9900i self-propelled forage harvester sold in Europe; it also spreads slurry with a dribble bar. Its public Facebook page is 'Lagan Bros Agri Contractors'.
Lyons Contracts
Long-established family agricultural contractor based at 19 Mayrs Lane, Ballyrashane Road, Coleraine, BT52 2NN, run by Robert Lyons with sons John and Stephen. Works at silage, slurry, harvesting, ploughing, sowing, grain crushing, dry rolling and dung spreading, and reportedly spreads around 30 million gallons of slurry per year.
McClean Contracts
Family-run agricultural contractor based at 55 Garvagh Road, Swatragh, BT46 5QE, run by Richard McClean and descended from a business started by his grandfather Adam in the early 1940s. Provides a full range of contracting including silage, baling, harvesting, slurry and hedge cutting to customers across County Derry.
McCloskey Agri Contracts
Agricultural contractor based at Maghera offering a range of farm services. Its advertised work includes round baling and wrapping, mowing, slurry spreading, dung spreading and dump trailer work at keen rates. It maintains a public Facebook page, 'McCloskey Agri Contracts'.
McKee Ltd
McKee Ltd is a plant hire and groundworks contractor based at Aghadowey near Coleraine with an agricultural background to the business. Its agricultural division cleans sheughs, installs land drainage and carries out digging, site clearance and groundworks, including silo tank and concrete base preparation for farms. The company operates a large fleet of construction machinery supplied with trained operators and works across County Londonderry and Northern Ireland.
O'Kane Agri Contracts
Agricultural contracting business based at Swatragh and working across mid-Ulster. Provides forage harvesting and pit silage, sowing and reseeding of silage ground, fertiliser spreading and spraying for weeds such as dockings, thistles and rushes, with regular jobs around Swatragh, Maghera and Draperstown. Its public Facebook page is 'O'Kane Agri Contracts'.
P. McAtasney Contracts
Agricultural contracting business based at Kilrea in east Co. Londonderry. Provides mowing, round baling and wrapping, ploughing and power harrowing, slurry spreading, dung spreading and digger work for farms in the surrounding area. It operates a public Facebook page, 'P.McAtasney Contracts'.
PS McLaughlin Agricultural Contractors
PS McLaughlin Agricultural Contractors is a Garvagh-based contractor with over 20 years' experience covering Coleraine and the surrounding north coast area. It offers silage cutting, crop spraying, muck and slurry spreading, baling, destoning, one-pass sowing and harvesting of potato, onion, carrot and cereal crops. The business also provides drainage, groundworks and digger hire with trained operators.
SJG Contracts
Small agricultural contracting firm based at Magherafelt, Co. Londonderry, specialising in slurry spreading with a 9m dribble bar via umbilical system and tankers. It also offers grass tedding, dung spreading, silage carting and tractor/driver hire.
T&J Montgomery Contracts Ltd (Montgomery Contracts)
T&J Montgomery Contracts is a long-established family contracting business based at Greenan Farm, Eglinton, run by two generations of the Montgomery family. It provides a broad service including pit and baled silage, tanker and umbilical slurry spreading, ploughing, sowing, reseeding, spraying and potato work across Derry and into Donegal. The business also operates an anaerobic digestion plant and tillage alongside the contracting operation.