Combine & Grain Harvesting

Combine harvesting, grain carting and crop haulage.

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.

Cairns Contracting

Agricultural contractor based at Waringstown, Co. Armagh, run by Garth Cairns since 1999 alongside the SlurryKat engineering company. It specialises in silage harvesting and umbilical slurry spreading, working within roughly a 30-mile radius of its base.

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.

Davidson Contracts

Davidson Contracts is an agricultural contractor based at Brigh Road near Stewartstown, outside Dungannon. The business runs a modern fleet for silage harvesting and hauling and for slurry spreading, using flow-meter and auto-steer equipment, and also provides agricultural transport. It has a strong social media following for its silage and slurry work in mid-Tyrone.

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.

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.

Glenview Farm Services

Glenview Farm Services is an agricultural contracting business based outside Benburb, County Tyrone, run by Alastair Farmer. It operates within roughly a ten-mile radius, covering Benburb, Eglish, Moy, Blackwatertown, Killylea, Caledon and Armagh, and regularly hauls and harvests silage for local farmers. The business maintains an active Facebook page showing its field work.

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.

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.

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 & TJ Townley

J & TJ Townley is a family-run agricultural contractor operating from Windmill Road, Donaghadee that cuts between 3,500 and 4,000 acres of pit silage each summer and around 600 acres of spring barley. It also spreads slurry, ploughs, reseeds and cuts hedges for a customer base within roughly 20 miles of Donaghadee. The business is entirely separate from the similarly named J D Townley & Son of Ballygowan.

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.

John Dan O'Hare (J.D. O'Hare)

John Dan O'Hare, trading as J.D. O'Hare, is a long-established family agricultural and groundworks contractor based at Katesbridge near Banbridge, Co. Down. The business provides silage and maize cutting, combine harvesting, ploughing, sowing and a full range of digging, drainage and groundworks for farms across County Down. It marked 60 years in business in 2022 and runs a large fleet that includes Claas forage harvesters, combines and JCB plant.

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.

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'.

Lee Agri Contracts (W. Lee & Sons)

Lee Agri Contracts, also known as W. Lee & Sons, is an agricultural contracting business based at Bellanaleck near Enniskillen in Co. Fermanagh. The firm was profiled by Irish Tractor & Agri as William Lee Agri, which has operated since 1987 and built a strong customer base across the Erne County. GRASSMEN filmed the W. Lee and Sons team in Fermanagh discussing their silage and slurry work, and the business maintains an active Facebook page.

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.

McCann Agri Contracts

McCann Agri Contracts is a family-run agricultural contractor based at Caledon Road, Aughnacloy. The business provides silage cutting and harvesting along with slurry spreading and general farm contracting for customers around Aughnacloy, Caledon and south Tyrone. It is well known locally for its silage fleet and posts regular work updates.

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.

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.

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.

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.

R. Anderson Contracts Limited

R. Anderson Contracts Limited is an active agricultural contracting company registered at Old Scarva Road, Tandragee, and historically trading as R Anderson & Sons. Directory entries for the Poyntzpass/Tandragee operation list silage and harvesting work, potato planting and stone separation, and crop spraying.

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.

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.

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.

Wallace Contracts

Wallace Contracts is a Mountnorris, Co. Armagh based contracting business that handles around 10,000 acres of grass each season. The firm runs CLAAS Jaguar forage harvesters supported by Krone mowing equipment, including a field-tested Big M self-propelled mower, and also provides slurry spreading. Its silage work was featured by the machinery media brand Grassmen at the start of the 2023 season.