The National Association of Agricultural Contractors (NAAC) in the UK has released its latest survey of contracting prices. Not surprisingly,...
May 23, 2022
The contracting community is getting behind the family of a young Cavan child affected by sight loss which has organised...
March 26, 2022
When some of the lads at school used to say that she wouldn’t be able to get a job driving...
August 2, 2021
Young farmers and drivers are being encouraged to apply for “the experience of a lifetime” – to link up with...
February 12, 2020
Agricultural contractors are finding it increasingly difficult to find and hold on to skilled drivers for their contracting businesses. On...
July 9, 2019
This week filming got underway for a DVD that will be inspired by women in agriculture, with the first images...
May 25, 2018
Farmers undercutting full-time contractors – using machinery procured with the support of grant aid – is the height of folly....
February 4, 2018
It turns out that contractors are now being actively pursued to sort out debt on kit that was purchased over...
September 9, 2017
A major silage harvesting display was hosted under clear, sunny skies yesterday (Sunday, July 23) at Lismore Castle Farm, Co. Waterford....
July 24, 2017
Maurice Gannon runs a busy farming and contracting operation at his base – close to Creggs on the Galway/Roscommon border. His tillage...
July 19, 2017
Ciaran Creane and his father Kevin run a busy tillage and contracting enterprise near Fethard-on-Sea, New Ross in Co. Wexford....
July 7, 2017
Noel and David Neilan run a busy contracting operation at Castlecoote, Co. Roscommon, whilst also running a drystock farm. The...
June 28, 2017
“Farm contractors across the country are facing significant challenges with regard to labour availability and managing labour costs. “This is...
May 4, 2017
Agricultural contracting businesses can sometimes happen by ‘accident’, when farmers progressively expand and employ their own machinery to do the...
May 3, 2017
A fraudster scammed €1,000s from his victims who were hoping to work for agricultural contractors in New Zealand, listeners to RTE’s...
March 16, 2017
An addiction to contracting and the silage season has drawn Irish man Niall Donohue to Australia and back in the...
February 12, 2017
Silage season began in earnest over the weekend, with farmers taking advantage of the fine weather to bring tractors, mowers...
May 16, 2016
Some 76% of farmers drove a tractor for the first time before they were 12 years old, according to an...
July 14, 2015
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