Thompsons Feeding Innovation

20/04/2026

We have news!! Last week we celebrated our incredible FOUR relay teams and ONE individual runner, getting ready to take part in this year's Belfast Marathon. Allowing us to not only get a bit fitter, but also fundraise and support four chosen charities, Air Ambulance Northern Ireland, Childrens Heartbeat Trust, Northern Ireland Hospice and Rural Support.

We took this opportunity to welcome each charity into the York Road, where they shared with us what wonderful work they do and how any money we raise can help in so many ways. We then topped off the wonderful morning with some delicious fruit and cake (it's all about balance).

We can't wait to cheer on our teams and the amazing individual that is taking on the whole marathon, on the 3rd May and any money we raise in doing this will be match funded by W&R Barnett and Thompsons, that's double the support we can give back to these charities.

Good luck teams!! Click on the link if you can donate anything at all. We have put the four charities all on the same page so you can donate to whichever is your choice. Thanks!!

https://www.justgiving.com/team/thompson-feeds-run?utm_medium=TE&utm_source=CL💪

01/04/2026

We recently welcomed to our York Road site for a tour of the mill.

It's always lovely to get the opportunity to show groups of young farmers around our multispecies mill and answer any questions that anyone has, like "what is the platform/ledge for, high up on the building that you can see when you drive past on the motorway?"

Always a popular question 😉 Does anyone know the answer?

Thanks again Ballymiscaw for your visit ☺

30/03/2026

21/03/2026

This week we had the privilege of being invited onto the Acheson Family Farm in County Armagh, where we were welcomed by David Acheson and his son Craig. We were treated to a great chat on the history of the family and how the farm business has changed over four generations. You can read about the Acheson beef enterprise in today's Farming Life, where hard work and dedication to the sustainability of the family farm, by David, his wife and all the family, has ensured its ongoing success.

Thanks to the Acheson family for giving us this insight into their family business 😀💪😎

20/03/2026

De Laval Training
Milking parlour software systems, whether for conventional systems or robots, are central to not only feed allocation and management, but also to complete herd data recording and analysis.

Colleagues from both Thompsons' Technical and Sales teams recently had further training on the latest versions of the DelPro software package from De-Laval enabling them to further enhance the back-up to Thompson’s customers using De-Laval milking equipment. Thanks to Sara Davidson and Neil Brown from De-Laval for an educational and informative session.

17/03/2026

We recently had the opportunity to bring together all our hard working women and have a really interesting and informative afternoon on everything we could do to improve our health and wellbeing. With the help of the wonderful guest speaker, Dr. Catherine Hughes, a registered nutritionist and Senior Lecturer in Public Health Nutrition from Ulster University, the discussion was lively and there were no questions left unanswered.

And although we were chatting about being a bit healthier, we still enjoyed a small sweet treat and a cuppa, everything in moderation😉

Thanks to for the information on their health testing kits and a few other treats and for some great samples to make our breakfast time a bit healthier 💪😀

13/03/2026

This week we were delighted to welcome North Down UFU Group to our York Road site, for a tour of the mill. Welcomed by our Formulations Team of Sharon Doherty, Kathryn Gibson and Trudi Scott and our Head of Buying, Ed Brown, everyone seemed to enjoy their visit. We hope you enjoyed the rest of your day out and thanks for your interest in Thompsons ☺

Ulster Farmers' Union

04/03/2026

We are looking for a HR Advisor, if you think this might be for you, just click on the link 👇
https://www.thompson.co.uk/index.php/careers

04/03/2026

This week we welcomed a great group of Discover CAFRE's Level 3 Agriculture Students, for a tour around our York Road site. There were lots of questions and thoughts about the students future plans, which our team were happy to discuss and even share stories of how they came to work in Thompsons.

Led by our Formulations Manager Sharon Doherty, we had three groups going around the mill, with Kathryn Gibson and Trudi Scott, both part of the formulations team, in charge of a group and our Head of Buying, Ed Brown with another keen group of students.

We thoroughly enjoyed showing the students around and even had a bit of sunshine to top off their day out and about. We hope you enjoyed your visit and your afternoon out on farm 😀😎