The Rural Network
The right contractor, close to home
The solution is Offa
Finding a good contractor still comes down to who you know. That works until your usual contractor is booked solid, retires, or does not do the job you need. And for contractors, a cancellation leaves a gap in the diary that the farm two parishes over could have filled. Offa connects farmers with local contractors, and contractors with work close to home.
Offa doesn't replace the contractors you already use. It widens your options.
It gives farmers and contractors a simple, farmer-led place to find each other. Search by service and distance, or post the job you need doing and let local contractors come to you.
With Offa you can:
Find cover when your usual contractor is booked
Post a job and let contractors come to you
See services, area and availability up front
Fill gaps in your diary with work close to home
Reach farms beyond your usual patch
Agree work directly, with no commission
Free to join
Create an Offa profile in minutes and start exploring opportunities across the rural network.
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Find a contractor
Search by service and distance, and see what each contractor does, the area they cover and when they are free. Or post a Contractor Wanted listing and let them come to you. Replies come back privately, not as public bids.
Find a contractor
Offer your services
Create one business profile, then list each service you offer. Farmers nearby can find you, and you can see and reply to jobs posted in your area. Fill the gaps in the diary with work close to home.
Offer your services
Covering the work farms need doing
Nearly 60 services in nine groups, from the first cultivation to the last bale.
Ploughing, subsoiling, min-till, power harrowing, rolling
Cereal, maize, oilseed rape and sugar beet drilling, potato planting
Spraying, fertiliser and lime spreading, slug pelleting
FYM and poultry litter spreading, slurry injection, digestate
Combining, grain carting, potato and sugar beet harvesting
Mowing, silaging, hay making, baling, bale wrapping
Hedge cutting and laying, fencing, ditching, stone picking
Contract lambing and calving, shearing, foot trimming, haulage
Tree work, mobile milling, tractor and operator hire, pest control
The solution is Offa. Ready to be part of a more connected way to farm?
Join the networkJack Robinson arable farmer and contractor
“I see that Offa is now offering Contracting Services as a category. This is a great place to get my business in front of the right people. It is easy to navigate and a great way to get yourselves out there.”
A fourth-generation farmer, Jack, has been pioneering and adopting reduced-cultivation and strip-tillage techniques—such as using a Kverneland Kultistrip 12-row machine in partnership with Barsham Estates to establish sugar beet. Not only is Jack a renowned and respected farmer in the county, but he also runs a contracting service, offering core farming operations, as well as hedgerow management, farm track and storage pad cement stabilisation and farm track repairs.“I was an early adopter of Offa as a farmer, and I’m delighted that I’ll now be able to let neighbouring farmers know about the range of contracting services I provide.” — Jack Robinson
Offa's growing network
Offa is launching region by region, working closely with farmers in selected areas to test and refine the network in real working conditions. Even if we're not yet live in your area - joining the network now means you'll be part of shaping its future.