Hedge Cutting

Hedge trimming and verge cutting for farms and field boundaries.

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.

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.

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'.

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.

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'.

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.

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.

Edwin Rea Contracts

Edwin Rea Contracts is a long-established family-run business based at Ballyhay, just outside Donaghadee, serving the agricultural and equestrian sectors. Its grassland management service covers rolling, spraying, mowing, tedding, rowing, fertiliser and manure spreading and hedge cutting, alongside fencing, shed erection and metalwork fabrication. The firm also builds its own bale-handling equipment.

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'.

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'.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

LJ Millar Agri Contracts Ltd (LJ Millar & Sons Plant Hire Ltd)

LJ Millar Agri Contracts Ltd is a family-run plant hire and agri contracting business based in Sion Mills, Co. Tyrone, founded by Jonny Millar. Its main agricultural work is umbilical and tanker slurry spreading, along with hedge cutting, silage trailer work and agricultural construction, backed up by a fleet of John Deere tractors and diggers. Groundworks, site clearance and low-loader work are also part of the operation, and the business serves local farms and building customers within about 10 miles of its base.

Loane Agri Contractors

Family-run agricultural contracting business based at Aughnacloy, Co. Tyrone, set up by Wilfred Loane in 1980 and later joined by his son Neil. It specialises in slurry and silage work and covers Aughnacloy, Caledon, Ballygawley, Omagh, Cookstown and Dungannon.

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 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.

MJ Contracts

Agricultural contracting business established in 2019 by Mark Curry and James McGurgan, based near Armagh. Silage cutting, lifting and buckraking are the core of the business, alongside slurry spreading and hedge cutting, working within about a 30-40 mile radius of Armagh.

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.

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.

W Johnston Agri

W Johnston Agri is an agricultural contracting business serving the Fermanagh and Tyrone area. Its Facebook page lists slurry spreading, silage and hedge cutting as its main services and gives a mobile contact number. The page is active and was created as a dedicated contracting presence.

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.