Ploughing
Ploughing, rotavating and power harrowing ahead of reseeding or crops.
AJ Contracts
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.
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.
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.
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'.
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.
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.
Heathfield Contracting (Heathfield Agri Contracting)
Heathfield Contracting is a Garvagh-area agricultural contractor run by the Torrens family, known for slurry work, ploughing and reseeding. The business uses an Agriseeder to slot cover crops, fodder crops and grass mixes into the soil with minimum disturbance, and also carries out sub-soiling and slurry mixing and spreading. It has featured in the agricultural press and maintains a Facebook presence.
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.
J. Wilson Agri Contracts
Agricultural contractor working around Ballymoney and Armoy in Co. Antrim, offering slurry spreading, reseeding, sowing, silage and ploughing, including specialist potato ploughing. Active on Facebook.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
McGuigan Brothers Agri Contracts
Family-run contracting business based at Crossdale Road, Middletown, Co. Armagh, trading for around 40 years and run by brothers Malachy and Kevin McGuigan with Malachy’s sons Mark and Padraig. It serves farmers on both sides of the Armagh/Monaghan border with silage, slurry, ploughing and reseeding.
McKelvey Bros
Family-run agricultural contracting business and farm supply store at Lisburn Street, Ballynahinch, Co. Down, established by Ivan and Brian McKelvey over 40 years ago. It provides silage, slurry, ploughing, sowing and fertilising, runs an agricultural retail store, and operates a haulage fleet.
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.
Murray Contracts
Murray Contracts is a family-run agricultural contracting business established in 1999 by Melvin Murray and based at Killylea, Co. Armagh. It cuts between 2,500 and 3,000 acres of pit silage and wholecrop per year and makes 8,000 to 10,000 bales of silage, hay and straw. The firm also spreads slurry using tankers and a Mastek umbilical system, and carries out ploughing, reseeding and a small tillage operation for customers in Armagh, Monaghan and Louth.
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'.
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.
Read Agri Contracts
Read Agri Contracts is a long-established, family-run contracting business based at Maguiresbridge in Co. Fermanagh, run by Barry Read and continuing a tradition started by his father over 40 years ago. It provides a professional silage and slurry service, along with reseeding, sub-soiling and straw grinding for farmers across Fermanagh and west Tyrone. The business has been profiled by Farming Life, FarmFLiX and GRASSMEN, and in 2024 was featured in a SIP grassland machinery case study describing its mowing, tedding and raking operation.
Ryan Quigley Contracts
Ryan Quigley Contracts is an agricultural contracting business based at Laragh near Enniskillen, trading locally as Quigley Agri Contracts. It provides silage cutting, mowing and raking, round baling and wrapping, ploughing and reseeding, slurry spreading with pipes and tankers, and GPS-guided spraying and sowing. The business works across County Fermanagh and is contactable on 07968 741750 (Ryan) or 07912 147442 (Ciaran).
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.
Tim McFarland
Tim McFarland is a farm contractor based at Cavan Road, Fintona, Co. Tyrone. He provides seedbed and sowing services, specialising in power harrowing, reseeding cultivation and direct drilling for local farmers. The business covers the Fintona area and nearby parts of west Tyrone.
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.
Tony Bell Contract Spraying
Tony Bell Contract Spraying operates from Coulters Hill, Kircubbin on the Ards Peninsula and provides GPS-guided crop spraying and fertiliser spreading at 12m, 20m and 24m widths. The business also offers ploughing, stubble/lea discing, one-pass grain drilling and grass seed sowing, with full paperwork supplied to support cross-compliance. It is listed as both an agricultural contractor and a full-time farmer.
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.