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FCI: ‘Contractors can’t cut everyone’s silage at noon on the same day’

Fergal O’Sullivan spoke with contractors Ann Gleeson Hanrahan and Norman Egar, director and chair of the Farm & Forestry Contractors Association (FCI), to understand the challenges faced by the sector

CONTRACTING 18 March 2026

FCI: ‘Contractors can’t cut everyone’s silage at noon on the same day’

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Cutting clean in tough conditions: Conal Moore on running Krone EasyCut Mowers

Conal Moore an agri contractor and tillage framer from Ballygar Co Galway. “We do a lot of reseeding, slurry spreading and tillage work but baling would be our main enterprise”.

Cutting clean in tough conditions: Conal Moore on running Krone EasyCut Mowers

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