Muck Spreading

Farmyard manure and dung spreading, with or without ploughing in.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

James Angus & Partners

James Angus & Partners is a family agricultural contracting business that has operated from Portaferry Road, Greyabbey since 1983. It specialises in silage, slurry, manure and lime and serves dairy, beef and sheep farmers across the Ards Peninsula, generally within 10 miles of its yard. The family also runs a livestock haulage company alongside the contracting business.

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.

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.

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'.

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.

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.

SJG Contracts

Small agricultural contracting firm based at Magherafelt, Co. Londonderry, specialising in slurry spreading with a 9m dribble bar via umbilical system and tankers. It also offers grass tedding, dung spreading, silage carting and tractor/driver hire.

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.

William Patton Agricultural Contractor Ltd

William Patton Agricultural Contractor Ltd is an active Ballyclare-based agricultural contracting company registered at Calhame Road, Ballyclare, Co. Antrim. The business carries out general farm contracting and operates tractors and manure spreaders on local farmland. It has traded since 2012 and files micro-entity accounts.

William Thompson & Son

William Thompson & Son is a family-run contractor based at Lusky Road, Ballygowan that provides both agricultural services and civil engineering/plant hire. For farms it offers slurry mixing and spreading, lime and manure spreading, land drainage, digging and drain jetting, using tracked and narrow-access diggers up to 14 tonnes plus dump trucks. All plant hire is supplied with the company's own experienced, qualified operators.