Diggers, Drainage & Plant Hire

Digger work, drainage, groundworks, site clearance and operated plant hire.

Bell Agri Contracts Ltd is an agricultural contracting business based at Tamary Hill, Rathfriland/Hilltown, Co. Down. It offers digger work and grass mowing alongside general farm contracting for farms in the Rathfriland and Hilltown area. The business is an active limited company (NI628185) classified under support activities for crop production.

Campbell Contracts Ltd

Family-owned firm based at Tempo, Co. Fermanagh, operating in agriculture and construction for over 50 years. Founded by James Campbell in the 1960s, it began in agricultural contracts and plant hire and now also covers quarrying, aggregates and civil engineering across Northern Ireland.

Cecil Cairns

Cecil Cairns is a farm contractor based at Altaglushan Road, Ballygawley, Co. Tyrone. He is available for digger work along with cutting and baling silage, covering the Ballygawley district. The business combines field contracting with general farm digger work.

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.

Colin Ramsey Agricultural Contracting

Colin Ramsey Agricultural Contracting is a family-run contractor based at Aghadowey near Coleraine serving small and medium-sized community farms. Silage, mowing and baling are the core of the business, backed up by tanker slurry work, sub-soiling and digger work and drainage in the winter months. The business has been trading since around 2000 and operates its own tracked digger.

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'.

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.

E Graham & Sons Agri Contractors

E Graham & Sons Agri Contractors is based at Cross Road, Hilltown, Newry, Co. Down. The business offers digger work and grass mowing together with general agricultural contracting for farms in the Hilltown and Newry area. It is listed locally as an agricultural contractor and agricultural services provider.

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'.

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.

Herron Contractors Ltd

Herron Contractors Ltd is a family-run groundworks and agricultural contracting business based at Gransha, Dromara, Co. Down, with a second base at Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan. It specialises in agricultural works including land reclaiming, water and slurry lagoons, drainage and operated plant hire, and also undertakes civil and domestic groundworks.

HFS Agri Hire (HF Hydraulics Ltd)

HFS Agri Hire, operated by HF Hydraulics Ltd, has provided agricultural plant and machinery hire from Newtownhamilton for over 15 years. Its hire fleet ranges from 40hp compact tractors up to 180hp tractors plus a wide range of farm and contractors' plant, backed by an on-site workshop, parts department and accident repair centre. The firm also runs mobile hydraulic hose repair vans serving farmers and contractors on both sides of the border.

Hugh Hannon Contracts

Hugh Hannon Contracts describes itself as agricultural and construction contractors based at Brankinstown Road, Lurgan. The business advertises slurry spreading with a 4,000-gallon tanker, dump trailer work, low loader hire and general plant hire with operator.

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 McNamee & Sons

J McNamee & Sons is a County Tyrone contractor providing excavator, farm contracting and haulage services. On the farming side it offers silage and grass cutting with baling and wrapping, while the plant side covers trenching, drainage, foundations and site clearance. The family business also hauls away soil, gravel, hardcore and construction waste, presenting itself as a one-stop local contractor across County Tyrone.

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.

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.

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.

M & R Hamilton

M & R Hamilton is a family-run agri contracting and engineering business based at Douglas Bridge near Newtownstewart, Strabane, run by brothers Marcus, Roger and Simon Hamilton. Established over 25 years ago, it specialises in silage cutting, slurry spreading and ploughing, and has expanded into farm building and tank engineering, shed shuttering and trailer manufacture. It also runs three track machines for digger work and serves a close-knit local client base.

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.

McCarroll Plant Hire Ltd

McCarroll Plant Hire is an agricultural and general plant hire business based at Dunloy/Cloughmills in north Antrim, hiring equipment across Ballymena, Ballymoney and Antrim. Its agricultural range includes tractor-driven implements such as a shredder, stoner, mole plough, bale lifter and post driver, alongside building and gardening equipment. The company (NI630772) is active and its hire website is live in 2026.

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'.

McKee Ltd

McKee Ltd is a plant hire and groundworks contractor based at Aghadowey near Coleraine with an agricultural background to the business. Its agricultural division cleans sheughs, installs land drainage and carries out digging, site clearance and groundworks, including silo tank and concrete base preparation for farms. The company operates a large fleet of construction machinery supplied with trained operators and works across County Londonderry and Northern Ireland.

McNally Farm and AGRI Contracts

McNally Farm and AGRI Contracts is a Portadown-based farming and agricultural contracting business. Its public page lists silage work alongside digger, low loader and dump trailer services for local farms.

Noel Patterson

Noel Patterson is an agricultural contractor based at Kildurn Road, Dromore, Co. Tyrone. He is available for grassland and arable contracting work and also operates diggers for farm groundworks. The business serves farms in and around Dromore.

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'.

Peter Kelly

Peter Kelly is an agricultural contractor based at Ballybrack Road, Loughmacrory, near Omagh. He offers silage cutting with a self-propelled harvester, slurry spreading using an umbilical system as well as tankers, and tractor and dump trailer hire. He works for farms across the Omagh district.

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 J Barnett & Sons Ltd

R J Barnett & Sons Ltd is an agricultural contractor based at Richhill outside Armagh, offering silage, slurry and general farm contracting alongside machinery and 4x4 sales. The business has an active Facebook page and a verified DoneDeal trading account, and continues to advertise slurry and farm machinery. It previously ran a large contracting fleet that was sold at auction in 2022.

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.

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.

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.

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.