Ever-tightening NVZ regs are forcing agricultural contractors to bring more precision to the task of applying slurry, as Emily Padfield found out. Totting up just how much he has spent on slurry application equipment in the past 12 months is a frightening exercise, admits Bere Regis, Dorset contractor Philip Trim. First, there was the self-propelled Claas Xerion and SGT 15,000 litre tanker. Add to that the three Joskin tankers, the three applicators (a 4m Simba X-Press, a 7m Kaweco grassland injectorand a 6m trailing shoe applicator) to go on the back of the Xerion and you come up with a substantial figure.
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