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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.