Grovemount Livestock is a family-run business providing livestock haulage services throughout Ireland and the UK. Earlier this year, the Parks family opened a state-of-the-art EU approved export assembly centre at their Co. Tyrone premises in Castlecaulfield, which is four miles from Dungannon. Located beside another EU approved export assembly centre which they opened in 2006, […]
Located in the Ards peninsula, Rowreagh Farm is one of the most progressive and impressive dairy farms on the island. We met up with 2012 UK Dairy Farmer of the Year Thomas Steele to discuss the history and current well-being of this exceptional family-run operation. From their base in Kircubbin, County Down – on the […]
Operating from Quigley’s Point, Co. Donegal, Greenhill Parke Engineering Ltd supplies and erects all types of farm buildings. The company was founded 18 years ago by Victor Parke, who is joined by his wife Olive and sons Keith and Adrian. Over the past two decades, Greenhill Parke Engineering has established itself as the leading manufacturer […]
Lavins Fruit and Veg Ltd. has certainly come a long way since it was established by Eamon Lavin and his wife Mary in 1986. Now employing 46 people and with a fleet of 17 vehicles on the road, this outstanding family business continues to experience impressive growth. We dropped into their Breaffy base to take […]
Celebrating 30 years in business, Eamonn Tarrant & Son Agri Contractors provide a complete agricultural contracting service to their many customers in Co. Cork. Billy Tarrant explains more about his family’s business. Eamonn Tarrant & Son was established in Kanturk by Eamonn Tarrant to service the needs of local farmers. Nowadays, Eamonn runs the business […]
Kilmore Potatoes Ltd is a third generation family business that takes great pride in growing a wide variety of the finest potatoes. The potatoes are sold in supermarkets, restaurants and chip shops throughout Ireland. Established eight years ago in the south-east corner of Ireland, Kilmore Potatoes Ltd is run by brothers John and Chris Fortune […]
Established as one of the farming community’s leading manufacturers of sheds and buildings, Halcon Steel has grown from a modest start of three employees in 2000. The company, under the stewardship of John Connell is celebrating its 15th year in business. Based in Ballymote, Tuam, County Galway, Halcon now operates from a 36,000 square foot […]
Operating out of Duleek in County Meath, McMahon Agri Services offers a comprehensive range of professional agricultural contracting services. We met up with Kieran McMahon to discuss the history and current well-being of this impressive family operation. McMahon Agri Services crosses the generations, as Kieran McMahon reveals. “My father James would have started the business […]
Founded in 2003, Ramage Contracts has quickly established itself as a leader in the farm building and steel products – including steel stockholding and livestock gates – sector. From its base in north Co. Antrim, the family-run business can fabricate and erect any size of steel-framed building to your specification. Ramage Contracts was set up […]
Kilkenny-based EUROFARM & Garden Supplies Ltd. is a veritable one-stop shop for all your farming supplies, equestrian accessories, gardening and hardware needs. We met up with managing director George Power to get an insight into this wide-ranging and progressive operation. EUROFARM & Garden Supplies Limited supply a large selection of products to the farming, gardening […]
