Eoghan Byrne Agricultural Contracting

31/05/2026

The ubiquitous June bank holiday baling footage, as our 25th round baling season got underway during the week.

Baling haylage Ballycahill Co. Tipperary May 2026.Deutz Agrotron 1...

16/05/2026

Modern conventional wisdom would probably dictate that it is best to focus on providing a small number of core services on a large scale. However we have never been fans of convention and wisdom is scarce, as much for our own interest as anything else we try to do a little bit of a lot of different things. Spring sowing this year included barley, maize, fodder beet, and grass seeds.

03/05/2026

26/04/2026

The glorious weather this weekend gave us the opportunity to put our new to us maize sower into action for the first time

05/04/2026

Our Cathal here got himself a drone for Christmas but never really got a chance to use it in anger until this week due to the seemingly never-ending winter, so here is his first attempt at a Youtube video.
Coincidentally this week also marks 25 years since I bought my first tractor and officially became a full-time contractor after a few years of fooling around with my father's gear and a few neighbours. Some people may be surprised to hear the dominant colour wasn't Deutz green in those days, or even green at all, but Ford blue. Unfortunately it was the pre-digital age and I can't lay my hands on any physical photos of the early days but if they turn up I might share them later in the year. Thanks to all the people who have helped me out over the last quarter of a century, be they customers, suppliers, or even just the many friends I have made, and of course my own family both previous and succeeding generations. Hopefully there's another 25 (at least) in us.
Happy Easter to all.

Spreading liquid fertilizer on behalf of N-xt Fertilizers Templetuohy in Co. Tipperary, April 2026.Deutz-Fahr Agrotron 6170 RC-Shift with a sprayer purpose-b...

02/04/2026

Something a bit different, a sombre evening in this house. I don't consider myself to be very old and I remember delivering pigs with my father and before that my grandfather to abbatoirs off the main streets of both Bray and Dun Laoghaire. The feed for the pigs was grown on the farm and they were reared, killed, butchered and consumed within a radius of a couple of miles of where they were born. Every butcher produced their own rashers, sausages, black puddings, and this was before marketing buzz works like "traceability", "sustainability" and "food miles" were even invented. It happened in every town in Ireland until they were regulated out of existence, bar the handful who are still soldiering on, and there are still a few.
The thing is, the aforementioned buzz words don't actually mean anything anymore, no matter what the original intentions were, they are merely a smokescreen to disguise the fact that the big boys are taking over. They are mass-producing generic products that are big on volume and low on quality, using ingredients and additives from the four corners of the world at prices the people who are more concerned with provenance and quality just can't compete with. Money talks, the big players are influencing the rules and regulations, and that is the rod that is beating the back of small-scale businesses.
It is not a trend that is confined to food production, it is an insidious malaise that is affecting every industry in the country. The PR waffle is disguising the fact that the product is inferior, and if the superior competition is pushed out of the picture nobody will ever know the difference.
The world is not yet made up entirely of multi-national conglomerates, although is it getting there, the next time you are about to click on an order of a big brand name from an even bigger retailer take a moment to consider the difference a small gesture can make to an independent producer or retailer. Look after your local small businesses, support them while you still can, when they are gone, they are gone, and they won’t be coming back.

20/03/2026

*NEW SERVICE*

For 2026 we will be able to offer a service sowing maize under plastic alongside our existing service sowing in the open, phone 0861720489 for details

17/03/2026

Happy St Patrick's Day from the (almost) all green outfit here. We hope everyone enjoys their local festivities and gets a chance to both partake in, and share, the best of Irish culture and tradition no matter where in the world they find themselves.

What better way to celebrate than a blast of the incomparable Luke Kelly with a song about the four corners of the island.

Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig oraibh go léir

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5_jwdOHm8w

14/03/2026

Ready to roll for our 15th season with N-xt Fertilizers Templetuohy liquid fertilizer applications, it's looking like both the weather and ground conditions will improve next week.

For more information on the products available see www.n-xtfertilizerstempletuohy.ie

02/03/2026

The prolonged wet weather has made even the most basic of fieldwork tasks difficult to complete over the winter and we have had to resort to the old fashioned methods at times when modern technology has struggled to perform. Hopefully we are about to turn a corner and normal service will shortly resume, so we are getting the last of the soil sampling tidied up this week before the bigger equipment swings back into action.