Connemara man features in new TG4 series that puts agri-workers in the spotlight

A CONNEMARA sheep shearer is one of the stars of a new documentary series that begins next week on TG4 – focusing on the work on farm contractors across the country.

Peadar Seoighe from Corr na Móna has been in the contracting business for about six years with his Highland Ground Services.

From lime spreading to topping and spraying rushes, Peadar has built an agri contracting business based upon the size of enterprise in the hills of Corr na Móna – alongside his sheep dog called Lindsey, who helps him get the job done.

He’s one of the seven stars of Contractors filmed over six months from April to September, when their workload is heaviest – from slurry spreading to hedge cutting, ploughing to round baling, helping the farmers of Ireland to keep the show on the road.

The seven-part series focuses on a few of the country’s 1,800 farming contractors; men and women, young and old – hired hands and subcontractors – driving the tractors, excavators and combines, foraging, hauling, seeding, cutting and harvesting.

Every year and in all weathers, these hardworking journeymen and women arrive with 20,000 tractors and harvesters, €150 million worth of agricultural machinery and 10,000 full and part-time operators to get the job done. They are the ‘white knights’ of farming.

In a single season, their crews will harvest five million bales of silage, spread ten billion litres of slurry and handle a mammoth nationwide programme of hedge-cutting, reseeding, crop spraying, fencing, ploughing and drainage maintenance.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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