Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 31 March 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action
Exploring Technologies and Opportunities to Reduce Emissions in the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. John Dolan:
With GPS-guided fertiliser spreading, where the GPS guides the operator in a straight line and it is a blanket spreader, when the operator turns the corner and comes to an angle, he could overlap a small percentage of what he is doing. When this spreader comes to an overlap, it slows down the disc and eventually stops. Most new spreaders have the capability of doing this.
The farmer who wants to spread 0-7-30 or 10-10-20-----