Rural Life
Court: Agricultural contractor given prison sentence for fraud
By Jessica Magee An agricultural contractor from Leitrim has been sentenced in court to two and a half years in...
Agricultural Contractor
Video
AgriLand meets a hedge-cutting contractor...with well over 30,000 hours on an MF 4270
Hugh Hegarty is a contractor In Co. Cork with a fleet of Massey Ferguson
Dairy
Video: Contractors constantly 'struggling to find and hold on to drivers'
Agricultural contractors are finding it increasingly difficult to find and hold on to skilled drivers for their contracting businesses. On...
Rural Life
Agri contractor's van and trailer stolen from yard
A Ford Transit van and an Ivor Williams 12ft X 6ft trailer have been stolen from an agri-contractor’s yard in...
Machinery
South-east slurry specialist: 'It's been a very strange year'
Rothwell Contracting is a firm located in Co. Wexford which has specialised in spreading agricultural slurry for approximately 30 years....
Rural Life
What item can tractor drivers not live without this harvest?
Irish tractor drivers can’t live without a radio in their cab during the particularly busy silage and cereal harvest season, a...
Agri-Business
Agricultural contractors 'can no longer act as interest-free banks'
Land-based agricultural contractors can no longer act as interest-free banks, according to the National Chairman of the Association of Farm and...
Grass
How much will it cost to get your (pit) silage cut?
Over the past week, silage contractors around the country were asked what they currently charge to cut pit (clamp) silage....
Tillage
'Conditions for sowing maize are good at the minute'
Conditions for sowing maize are excellent at present, according to a prominent contractor based in Co. Cork. Mark Troy, of...
Machinery
A tachograph may be 'required' in your tractor: How far do you drive?
The limit a tractor can travel from its base needs to be increased to 250km, to keep tachographs out of tractors,...
Agri-Business
Farmers and contractors continue to feature on latest tax defaulters list
A number of farmers and agricultural contractors feature on a list of tax defaulters for the fourth quarter of last year, which...