Advances in technology means pumping slurry is now a viable alternative to the more conventional spreading systems Not many Irish farmers have experience of umbilical slurry spreading. The more ...

Spreading slurry through an umbilical system can be vastly more efficient than running tankers, but it’s not always a practical proposition for every farm, particularly those with outlying ground a ...

Cumbrian contractor and agricultural engineer Graham Hayllar built his first slurry pumping trailer more than 25 years ago and has since added two more to his fleet. The idea for his first rig came ...

Specialist manufacturer, Vredo, is testing the market with a new umbilical unit designed to work with its own injector systems, which normally work behind tanker units. Aimed as satisfying the ...

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It's got to go somewhere, you might as well use it to grow grass. That's Wayne Bowden's approach to dairy effluent. As an agricultural contractor, he's decided to invest more than $150,000 in a new ...

Ieuan Evans – inventor of the Smart Slurry Pump – was named winner of the Young Engineer Award at LAMMA 2024. His idea came from ‘countless hours’ operating a tractor driven umbilical slurry pump on ...

Large cattle track with fouling. Sewage fungus in 3km of a stream. Burst umbilical during slurry spreading. Burst tyre on vacuum tanker when spreading slurry. A licensing system for contractors to ...

An expert has emphasised the critical importance of environmentally conscious slurry spreading practices this winter to protect water. A specialist once responsible for measuring the nitrate and ...

About half is applied in summer, mostly after first cut silage when it is most convenient to do so, but with a loss of very valuable N fertiliser. A considerable amount of slurry is spread in autumn.

SlurryKat's dribble bars in action. SlurryKat is a recognised leading manufacturer of quality, effluent handling equipment. Since its founding in 1994, the company has established a reputation as the ...