Contracting & Farming

In this video Courtney chats to Liam Devlin, who we last saw when he pulled our Smyth trailer for J. Wilson Contracts here at home. Liam is now in Perthshire, Scotland with his Case Puma 175 carting potatoes for Stewart Farms, this is Liam's 10th season carting potatoes in Scotland & he gives us some reasons why he travels over every season.

This week we take a look behind the scenes at Ross Agri Services in St. Cyrus, Scotland. Managing director Martin Ross gives us a tour around the facility, best known for its Fendt franchise. We also get a look at Martins tractor pulling equipment & hear details of the future plans for the DieselRoss pulling team!

Over the summer we visited Gavin McKnight multiple times to catch him doing a variety of jobs. Donkey got chatting to him about what’s new in their fleet and how the 2022 season has been!

In this video, we went out to see Nigel Adams and his team at Mere Farm, Staffordshire. Tom chats to Nigel about the machinery he is currently running, including a fleet of Massey Ferguson tractors and a Case IH 9250 combine. Nigel also talks about their new potato harvesting system and how modern technology is improving potato production.

Following on from our visit to the Trioliet factory we got a demonstration of a Trioliet Triomatic WB 2-300 automatic diet-feeder on a farm not far from the factory. Padraig talks us through the automatic feeder and tells us why they are beneficial to a farmer over a other methods of diet-feeding!

In this video we take a look at Wallace Contracts slurry outfit, In particular their Cat Challenger Terragator. Driver Aidan Mcloughlin tells us a bit about the machine & Cian even attempts to drive it!

It's been three years since we last caught up with A. L. Wilkinson Contract Farming. Gareth and Alec reminisce about the last visit, what machinery is still on the go and how farming has changed in the last few years.

In this video Alan takes the demo Zetor out to lift grass with the Pottinger Mex 6 harvester. Cian chats to him about what they like & dislike about the new flagship Zetor tractor.

The team took a trip down south to visit a very scenic Dingle Co Kerry where Craig gets talking to Kieran Galvin about his baling fleet and how they do things slightly different in West Kerry!

This week Donkey tries to turn back time! Craig pilots the 6290 & Kane Classic at Shane's Castle on the shores of Lough Neagh, in the very same field where Donkey once filmed Sloan's Massey & Kane outfit almost 20 years ago!

In this episode Cian travels to Co. Wexford to chat with Aidan Wickham about his brand new CLAAS LEXION 8700, his fleet of tillage & silage cutting equipment and his views on the future of tillage farming in Ireland.

This week Tom chats to Rich Westwood at GC & JM Norgrove Contractors while out baling haylage.
Rich tells Tom about his experience operating the uncommon Claas Rolant combi baler wrapper & talks through the rest of the Norgrove fleet.