Philip Mattey

In the conversations that you're having with farmers, I mean, they're obviously very keenly aware of how much money they're spending on diesel

typically in Ireland right now, a hundred cow operation will be spending nine or maybe 10,000 euro a year on the current prices.

Quite previously, they would have been spending about 5,000 euro a year.

With that sort of baseline to continuing to run a diesel tractor in mind, are people convincing themselves, those that you're talking to, that this is a clever hedge, a clever thing to do now?

Philip Matty in Northampton.

Well, that is good in so far as it goes, but it is very expensive and it won't be any use in the fields doing silage cutting, ploughing, slurry spreading and so on.

But there is a battery powered answer to both of those questions coming up a little bit later on in the programme.