JR Perry Ltd. is a long-established family business that has been offering unrivalled agricultural machinery solutions to farmers and contractors across Kildare and surrounding counties for more than half a century. We revisited their Athy head office and touched base once more with managing director Stephen Perry to find out how this outstanding, customer-focused company […]
Based in Fivemiletown, County Tyrone, Lakeview Farm specialises in breeding pedigree Suffolk and Bluefaced Leicester sheep. We caught up with Gary Beacom to find out more about this exceptional family business which has established itself as one of the island’s premier pedigree sheep farms. Lakeview Pedigree Livestock certainly isn’t your ordinary, everyday sheep farm. Gary […]
Eddie Slattery Dairy & Refrigeration Ltd in Tralee, Co Kerry has grown to become one of Ireland’s leading DeLaval dealers, so we felt it was time to catch up with company Sales Manager Derek O’Brien to find out more. The origins of Eddie Slattery Dairy & Refrigeration Ltd date back to 1972 when north Kerry […]
The Liston family in Banogue, Co. Limerick have been steadily increasing their dairy herd size in recent years. Fiachra Liston explains more. Fiachra and his father Aidan are currently milking 280 Holstein Friesian cows, which is more than double what they were milking a decade ago. Since returning to the family farm in 2004, Fiachra […]
Davoren Plant, incorporating Davoren Plant Hire and Davoren Plant Services, is a highly-regarded family-run operation based outside Eyrecourt in Co. Galway. With its 50th birthday just around the corner, we caught up with Niall Davoren to discuss the history and success of the business. Davoren Plant has come a long way since Michael Davoren established […]
As well as being one of Northern Ireland’s leading sheep farmers, Crosby Cleland is a successful fencing and gate contractor and is halfway through his term as Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) beef and lamb chairman. Crosby’s Brookmount Farm in Saintfield, Co. Down, which has been in his family for at least four generations, consists of […]
Now part of the Karro group, Cookstown is the largest single pig processing plant in the UK and Ireland, with 1.2 million pigs processed annually for domestic and international markets throughout Europe, Asia, the USA and Africa. Cookstown is one of largest employers in Mid-Ulster and is a major supporter of Northern Irish (and Republic […]
Trading for the past 13 years, McCloskey Bros is a leading agricultural contracting firm based in Loughgiel, Co. Antrim. Specialising in umbilical slurry spreading, fertiliser spreading, slurry spreading, sowing, baling, drawing / stacking round bales, hedge cutting and dump trailer work, it offers an extensive farming contracting service to a growing customer-base. McCloskey Bros is […]
Glenmore Farms in Co Down is renowned for being one of the country’s top potato growing farms, so Irish Tractor & Agri felt it was time to hear more from co-owner Dessie Patterson. Through the generations, the Pattersons have always had a glowing reputation for carrying out a top class service for their customers. Nowadays, brothers Dessie and […]
The livestock mart has been synonymous with farming for many, many generations and not only is it a place to buy and sell animals, but it is the focal point of the farming community where farmers meet to discuss the trials and tribulations of the industry they are involved in. Facilities at a mart have […]
