Welcome to the Central Injection Agri
LEADERS IN SLURRY & FARM LAND MANAGEMENT
About Us - Central Injection Agri
Central Injection Agri are agricultural contractors based in South Canterbury servicing the Ashburton District and North Canterbury.
CIA Ltd Specialises in Efficient, cost-effective and environmentally friendly slurry management including liquid slurry injection, Rock Picking, Green waste compost spreading and muck spreading.
CIA Ltd specializes in efficient, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly slurry management solutions, including on-farm liquid slurry injection, green waste compost spreading, rock picking, and muck spreading.
Owner and operator Tom O’Keefe, originally from Fedamore, County Limerick, Munster, Ireland, arrived in New Zealand in September 2003 with the intention of staying for just the harvest season. Nineteen years later, he is still thriving in New Zealand!!
Tom is now an established contractor with a thriving effluent business, 4 children - with two of then now working in the business alongside his partner - Sandra.
Tom started working on a dairy farm when he was 10yrs old, then went on to work for a local contractor for 10yrs harvesting silage, maize, and spreading slurry.
His New Zealand journey began in mid-canterbury where he took on work for various agricultural contractors. A permanent position came up with Turley Farms, Tom stayed here for the next 10 years! Tom had many different roles for contractors in Ashburton, including harvesting, dairy conversions, and tractor driving. A one-year stint on a High Country Station in the MacKenzie District where he got to see New Zealand farming in a whole different light.
With life long experience in the farming and agricultural industry, Tom always had a vision to be working for himself, so when the right contracting business opportunity came along – Tom was ready.
Not so long until a new business opportunity did come along, and it involved slurry spreading – albeit in a more environmentally friendly way. The redistribution of Dairy farms effluent through injecting back into the paddocks seemed like a very smart and effective way of fertilising farms. With the support and sound business advice accumulated along the way, Tom became an owner-operator of his very own Agricultural contracting business – Central Injection Agri.
Central Injection Agri has added to their AG Contracting services with the addition of the ELHO Rock picker and Green Waste Compost Spreading
Tom values the contribution of knowledge and business smarts from local contractors that has seen his business grow from strength to strength – Just like the paddocks he fertilisers.
Although the business is centred in Pleasant Point, CIA contracts to farms throughout the Canterbury region. Covering the regions of North Canterbury, Mid Canterbury and South Canterbury. When Tom is not on a paddock working, he and sometimes his partner Sandra are on the road relocating to another job!
Looking for Agricultural Contractors in Canterbury? Central Injection Agri specialise in all forms of effluent application both liquid and solids using specialist European slurry equipment consisting of a Veenhuis rotomax injection with precision application. To find out more about this amazing piece of equipment – click here.