Efficiency is key,” points out MathewLewis, who, along with his brothers Thomas and Jack, manages a multi-pronged contracting enterprise near Carmarthen. The three brothers took over the reins of the business from their father in 2022 to create Lewis Brothers Contracting. Surrounded by dairy farms, the list of jobs undertaken primarily extends to more than 1,800ha of grass silage, slurry spreading and grass reseeding, with three excavators also on the firm’s books for groundworks and land drainage.
Their father Martin started out with slurry spreading and then added cutting silage to the list of services in the late 1980s. These jobs still form the backbone of the operation for the new generation. When we visited, Jack was working in New Zealand, getting some additional experience, while Mathew and Thomas were…
