Baling

Round and square baling for hay, straw and silage, wrapped or dry.

Casey Agri Ltd is an agricultural contracting and machinery business based in the Newtownhamilton area of south Armagh. Its contracting work covers self-propelled silage cutting, round baling and wrapping, slurry spreading and mixing, and hard dung spreading. The company also supplies agricultural plant machinery and 4x4 vehicles with delivery across Ireland and further afield.

Cecil Cairns

Cecil Cairns is a farm contractor based at Altaglushan Road, Ballygawley, Co. Tyrone. He is available for digger work along with cutting and baling silage, covering the Ballygawley district. The business combines field contracting with general farm digger work.

Clingan Contracts

Clingan Contracts is a third-generation family agricultural contracting business based in Dromara, Co. Down. It specialises in silage cutting, slurry spreading with umbilical and tanker systems, and reseeding, as well as digger work. The business has been featured by GRASSMEN covering its slurry, baling and silage operations.

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.

Copeland Contracts

Copeland Contracts is an agricultural contracting service based in Banbridge, Co. Down. It provides mowing and tedding, tractor and silage trailer work, slurry tanker spreading with a dribble bar, dump trailer work and bale lifting and stacking. Tractor-and-driver hire is also offered.

Crawford Agri Contracting (Stanley Crawford & Sons)

Crawford Agri Contracting is a long-established family contracting business at 134 Strabane Road, Castlederg, founded by the late Stanley Crawford and now run by his son Ross. Trading for over 50 years, it offers a complete plough-to-harvest service including silage cutting, round baling, ploughing, slurry and manure spreading, grass stitching and hedge cutting. The business works within roughly a 25-mile radius of Castlederg and is known for reliable, well-scheduled work carried out promptly for loyal repeat customers.

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'.

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.

David Armstrong

David Armstrong is a farm contractor based at Augher Point Road, Gortaclare, near Omagh. He is available for mowing, round baling, net-and-wrap baling and flail hedge cutting for farms in the Omagh area. Contact is by phone or email.

Dorman Brothers Agri-Contracts, Excavations and Haulage

Dorman Brothers is a family-run agricultural contracting, excavation and haulage business established near Dungannon in 2002 by brothers Damian and Cathal Dorman. It provides pit silage harvesting, round baling and wrapping, slurry spreading, hedge cutting and digger work, and also runs a low-loader haulage fleet. The business works mainly within a ten-mile radius of its Dungannon yard and runs a large fleet of forage harvesters, tractors and silage trailers.

Farlow Agri Contracts

Agricultural contracting business set up in 2001 by Kyle Farlow and based at Ballgonnell Road, Drumcose, Enniskillen. It provides a full range of services - mowing, silage, round baling, ploughing/reseeding, slurry, dung spreading, hedge cutting and digger work - and cuts over 5,000 acres of grass per season.

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'.

Gormley Contracts

Agricultural and building contracting business in Belleek, Co. Fermanagh, founded and run by Jamie Gormley and trading as Gormley Contracts Limited (NI645077). Its main agricultural work is silage, baling and slurry spreading, alongside shed fabrication, shuttering and structural steelwork across Fermanagh and surrounding counties.

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.

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.

H Farmer Agri Contracts

H Farmer Agri Contracts is an agricultural contracting business based in Newry, Co. Down. It provides slurry and fertiliser spreading, spraying, hedge cutting, reseeding, mowing/tedding/raking and round baling for local farmers. The business posted regular updates through 2025 showing first-cut silage, bale stacking, slurry and reseeding work around Newry.

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'.

Hunniford Farms

Third-generation family farming and agricultural contracting business based at Moy Road, Portadown, Co. Armagh. It provides silage and maize cutting, umbilical slurry and digestate spreading, ploughing, reseeding, hedge-cutting and grain haulage, and also runs anaerobic digestion plants.

J McNamee & Sons

J McNamee & Sons is a County Tyrone contractor providing excavator, farm contracting and haulage services. On the farming side it offers silage and grass cutting with baling and wrapping, while the plant side covers trenching, drainage, foundations and site clearance. The family business also hauls away soil, gravel, hardcore and construction waste, presenting itself as a one-stop local contractor across County Tyrone.

JD Townley & Son

Third-generation, family-run agricultural contractor based at Ballygowan, Co. Down, run by James Townley with his father Roy. It provides grass and maize silage, cultivation and drilling, combining, square and round baling, spraying and slurry spreading across County Down.

JP Agri Contracts

Agricultural contracting business founded in 2014 by John Patrick, based at Letterbreen near Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh. It provides silage, slurry, ploughing and reseeding, dung spreading and hedge cutting across Fermanagh, Tyrone, Sligo and Cavan.

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.

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.

Leslie McBride Agricultural Contractor

Leslie McBride Agricultural Contractor is a Banbridge-based contractor covering the Banbridge and wider Armagh/Down area. Public posts show silage baling and wrapping and hedge-cutting work, and the business also trades machinery such as mowers.

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.

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'.

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.

Murray Contracts

Murray Contracts is a family-run agricultural contracting business established in 1999 by Melvin Murray and based at Killylea, Co. Armagh. It cuts between 2,500 and 3,000 acres of pit silage and wholecrop per year and makes 8,000 to 10,000 bales of silage, hay and straw. The firm also spreads slurry using tankers and a Mastek umbilical system, and carries out ploughing, reseeding and a small tillage operation for customers in Armagh, Monaghan and Louth.

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.

R Hillis Contracts Ltd

Fourth-generation, family-run agricultural contracting business based at Ringclare Road, Newry, Co. Down, with almost 80 years in business. It specialises in pit and baled silage, dung and slurry spreading, crop harvesting, reseeding, hedge-cutting and digger work for farmers across Down, Armagh and Antrim.

Read Agri Contracts

Read Agri Contracts is a long-established, family-run contracting business based at Maguiresbridge in Co. Fermanagh, run by Barry Read and continuing a tradition started by his father over 40 years ago. It provides a professional silage and slurry service, along with reseeding, sub-soiling and straw grinding for farmers across Fermanagh and west Tyrone. The business has been profiled by Farming Life, FarmFLiX and GRASSMEN, and in 2024 was featured in a SIP grassland machinery case study describing its mowing, tedding and raking operation.

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.

Ryan Quigley Contracts

Ryan Quigley Contracts is an agricultural contracting business based at Laragh near Enniskillen, trading locally as Quigley Agri Contracts. It provides silage cutting, mowing and raking, round baling and wrapping, ploughing and reseeding, slurry spreading with pipes and tankers, and GPS-guided spraying and sowing. The business works across County Fermanagh and is contactable on 07968 741750 (Ryan) or 07912 147442 (Ciaran).

Smith Contracts

Smith Contracts is a family-run agricultural contracting business based in Fivemiletown, County Tyrone. It carries out silage cutting and harvesting, slurry pumping and spreading and baling for farmers in the Clogher Valley and along the Tyrone/Fermanagh border. The business posts regularly on Facebook with its silage and slurry work.

T Cassidy & Sons Agri Contracts

T Cassidy & Sons Agri Contracts is a family-run business in Augher that has been contracting for over 40 years, set up by Tom Cassidy and now run day-to-day by his son Andrew. It does silage harvesting, baling, muck spreading and slurry, and also operates two livestock trucks drawing pigs, cattle and sheep.

Tinsley Contracts

Family-run agricultural contracting business based at Dromara, Co. Down, operating for almost half a century and fronted by Richard Tinsley. It specialises in pit and whole crop silage and slurry spreading, and also provides lime spreading, dung spreading, ploughing and sowing within roughly a 30-mile radius.

Winters Agri Contracts

Winters Agri Contracts is a family-run agricultural contracting business based at Shaneragh Road, Dromore, Co. Tyrone, operated by Kieran and Gavin Winters. It provides silage cutting, slurry spreading and lime spreading for local farms and can also supply large square bales of straw. The Winters family is well known in the Omagh area for its farming and agricultural interests.

WJ McKelvey and Sons Agriculture Contracts

WJ McKelvey and Sons Agriculture Contracts is a family-run contracting business run by William McKelvey and his sons Allister and Gareth, established in 1977 and based at Plumbridge, Omagh. It is best known for round baling (around 12,000 bales a year) and also provides slurry work, hedge cutting, tedding/raking and snow clearance.