Mr. John Dolan:

Between the software, the spreader, the tractor and utility task vehicle, UTV, the cost is somewhere in the region of €200,000. Most of the people currently utilising the service are larger dairy farmers. Now, when they spread a compound fertiliser over their grazing platform, they can target phosphorous and potassium levels individually. They can, in effect, make up their own compound. Instead of using, for example, an 18-6-12 fertiliser, they could make up a 27-9-4 fertiliser. They can make up their own compound by running over the area three times, spreading the different elements separately as opposed to in one compound.