Grass baleage and grass silage, maize silage and rural transport across Mid Canterbury. Family owned, based in Tinwald, run from the paddock rather than an office.
20K followers on FacebookAgricultural contracting and rural transport from our base in Tinwald, across Mid Canterbury and the South Island.
Full-service mowing, raking and baling. Tight grass baleage in squares or rounds that holds its feed value through winter.
Book early for the first cut, or ring mid-season to top up the stack before winter.
Power-packed feed for your herd. We plant, chop and cart it, and we are taking contracts for the 2026 season now.
Contracting now for the 2026 season. Ring Andrew to lock your paddocks in.
Grass and maize chopped to make a consistent, high-energy feed for the stack.
Talk to Andrew about the paddock, crop and harvest window.
Seed in the ground at the right depth, spacing and soil temperature, so the crop gets away evenly.
Planting and the maize contract can be booked together, one call does both.
The complete job: mow, rake, chopped or loader wagoned into the stack.
Remote and awkward country is fine, talk to us about the block before you rule it out.
High density straw bales, delivered to you. Quality, clean, dry straw from paddock to shed.
Straw behind the header or hay off your own paddocks, either way it gets baled right.
Bales, fine chop or general freight, delivered across the South Island. Need something moved? Talk to Andrew.
One truck load or a full season of cartage, ring Andrew with the job and the dates.
Livestock transport across Mid Canterbury and the South Island. Call Logan for stock movements.
Ring Logan on 022 140 6059 to talk through the load and timing.
Claas choppers and tractors, Scania trucks and the balers in between. One fleet, run and serviced by the same crew you will meet below.
Shots from our own gear on Mid Canterbury farms, from first mow to the last bale carted off under lights.
A small, hands-on team. You will see the same people on your place from the first paddock to the last load.
Owner
Owner operator with about 15 years in the agricultural contracting industry. Andrew stays close to every job, from the first quote through to the finished stack.
Baling Manager
Fourteen to fifteen years contracting around Mid Canterbury. Logan runs the baling team and handles stock transport bookings.
Operations
Bronwyn is the one-stop shop for the admin side of Harris Contracting, keeping bookings, paperwork and customer details moving.
Andrew built Harris Contracting around a simple idea: the person who quotes your job should be the one in the paddock doing it. The crew plants, mows, rakes, bales, chops and carts, and the trucks carry it wherever it needs to go.
Independently assessed on health and safety, and proud to give back off the farm too.
Prequalified through Site Safe New Zealand with SiteWise Gold status and a score of 94%, assessed on 29 September 2026.
A certificate of appreciation for supporting the Special Children's Christmas Party in 2026.
Example reviews from the demo. Google reviews will be connected once the Harris Contracting profile is live.
Andrew and the crew did our whole first cut this season. Tight bales, wrapped properly, and they left the gateways tidier than they found them.Mark T. Dairy farmer, Hinds
Booked maize silage late and they still fitted us in. The chop quality was spot on and the stack was rolled and covered before the rain came through.Sarah M. Dairy farmer, Rakaia
Had them cart bales up from Southland. Turned up when they said they would, load was strapped right, price was fair. That is all you can ask.Dave R. Sheep and beef, Mayfield
Out in the paddock
A look at the people, machines and work behind each season.
Once the Harris Contracting Google profile is live, a review will help the next farmer find us.
The things farmers ask us most before booking. Anything else, ring Andrew on 027 318 8798.
We are based at 23 Bryant Street, Tinwald, Ashburton, and do our contracting work across Mid Canterbury. Our general and livestock transport runs South Island wide.
Grass baleage, grass silage, chopped silage and maize silage, precision planting, straw and hay, plus general transport and livestock transport.
Yes. We are contracting now for the 2026 season. Ring Andrew on 027 318 8798 to lock your paddocks in. Planting and the maize contract can be booked together, so one call does both.
Book early for the first cut, or ring mid-season to top up the stack before winter. We bale when the moisture is right, not when the calendar says so.
Both. We make tight grass baleage in squares or rounds that holds its feed value through winter. For straw and hay we run three high density big square balers.
When the weather window is tight we bale under lights rather than lose the crop.
Yes. For grass silage, remote and awkward country is fine. Talk to us about the block before you rule it out.
Yes. We cart bales, fine chop off the chopper and general freight, South Island wide. One truck load or a full season of cartage, ring Andrew with the job and the dates.
Ring Andrew on 027 318 8798 for bookings, silage, planting and general transport. Ring Logan on 022 140 6059 for baling and livestock transport. Bronwyn looks after the admin side, so contact Andrew for bookings.
Ring the person who runs the job, or email us with your rough hectares and timing, and we will come back with a plan.
Yes. We are prequalified through Site Safe New Zealand with SiteWise Gold status for 2026/27, with a score of 94%, assessed on 29 September 2026. We are also a member of Rural Contractors New Zealand.
A small, hands-on team. You will see the same people on your place from the first paddock to the last load, and Andrew stays close to every job from the first quote through to the finished stack.
Ring the person who runs the job, or flick us an email with your rough hectares and timing and we will come back with a plan.
