Drilling & Reseeding

Seed drilling, reseeding and grass establishment, with GPS guidance.

Family-run agricultural contractor based at Eglish, near Dungannon, Co. Tyrone, set up by Alan Jameson-Ewing in 2000. It provides silage and crop harvesting, hedge cutting, ploughing, sowing and slurry spreading to farms within a 15-20 mile radius of Eglish.

Alan McFarland

Alan McFarland is an agricultural contractor based at Timpany, Clogher, Co. Tyrone. He provides grass silage work together with maize planting and harvesting, giving local farms access to specialist forage machinery without buying their own. He covers the Clogher and wider County Tyrone area.

AMC Contracts

AMC Contracts is an agricultural contractor based in Cookstown, County Tyrone. The business offers slurry mixing and drawing, silage raking, lifting and drawing, and all reseeding work for farms in the surrounding mid-Ulster area. It advertises its services and posts work updates through its Facebook page.

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.

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.

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.

Drumlish Farm Machinery (Drumlish Agri Contracting)

Family-run business at Dromore, near Omagh, Co. Tyrone, headed by Gerard Barrett with his three brothers and father Vincent. Established as agricultural contractors over 20 years ago, it runs a contracting arm specialising mainly in silage, slurry spreading, re-seeding and hedge cutting, alongside a dealership for Kuhn, SlurryKat, Sumo, Roco and Agrional machinery.

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'.

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.

Guiness Farms Ltd

Guiness Farms Ltd / R.A Livingstone & Son is a family farming and agricultural contracting business based at Dyan Road, Caledon, in the Clogher Valley. Alongside its dairy, beef and poultry enterprises it provides pit silage, wholecrop and maize harvesting, umbilical slurry spreading, reseeding and crop spraying to local farmers. It runs an all-John Deere fleet and a SlurryKat umbilical slurry system.

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.

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'.

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. 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

McGuigan Brothers Agri Contracts

Family-run contracting business based at Crossdale Road, Middletown, Co. Armagh, trading for around 40 years and run by brothers Malachy and Kevin McGuigan with Malachy’s sons Mark and Padraig. It serves farmers on both sides of the Armagh/Monaghan border with silage, slurry, ploughing and reseeding.

McKelvey Bros

Family-run agricultural contracting business and farm supply store at Lisburn Street, Ballynahinch, Co. Down, established by Ivan and Brian McKelvey over 40 years ago. It provides silage, slurry, ploughing, sowing and fertilising, runs an agricultural retail store, and operates a haulage fleet.

Megaw Contracts (Ivan Megaw & Son)

Third/fourth-generation family contracting business based at Poyntzpass, Co. Armagh. It runs one of Northern Ireland’s largest contracting fleets and serves farmers across Counties Armagh and Down with silage, slurry, tillage and harvesting work.

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.

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'.

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).

S. Muldoon Agricultural Services Ltd (S. Muldoon Agri)

S. Muldoon Agricultural Services is a long-established family agricultural business at Annaghmore, Portadown, trading as S. Muldoon Agri. Alongside farm supplies (feeds, seeds, fertiliser and minerals) it provides contracting work including GPS-assisted fertiliser spreading and grass and cereal sowing with a Guttler three-in-one seed drill, as well as digger and dump trailer work.

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.

Tim McFarland

Tim McFarland is a farm contractor based at Cavan Road, Fintona, Co. Tyrone. He provides seedbed and sowing services, specialising in power harrowing, reseeding cultivation and direct drilling for local farmers. The business covers the Fintona area and nearby parts of west Tyrone.

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.

Tony Bell Contract Spraying

Tony Bell Contract Spraying operates from Coulters Hill, Kircubbin on the Ards Peninsula and provides GPS-guided crop spraying and fertiliser spreading at 12m, 20m and 24m widths. The business also offers ploughing, stubble/lea discing, one-pass grain drilling and grass seed sowing, with full paperwork supplied to support cross-compliance. It is listed as both an agricultural contractor and a full-time farmer.

Walker Contracts

Walker Contracts is an agricultural contracting business based in Omagh, Co. Tyrone. It is available for silage cutting, re-seeding and slurry spreading work for farms around the Omagh area. Contact is by mobile phone.

William Buchanan

William Buchanan is an agricultural contractor based at Ratyn Road, Castlederg, Co. Tyrone. He provides silage cutting, reseeding and slurry spreading, including an umbilical slurry system for low-emission application. The business works for farms in and around the Castlederg area.