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And how long would that 10,000 litres last you?
How much would your fuel bill have been in 2025?
Yeah, that you're now going to get support from?
And this year you think it'll be what?
Okay, that's a jump and a half.
Rob McNaughton from Zoomline, thank you very much.
Pure electric 400-horsepower tractor, still a good deal away, but there is an awful lot of options that do actually exist.
How many tractors have you had today?
How much difference is the support that the government has offered going to make?
And the people that you're out there talking to, the clients that you're meeting day to day, what's the mood like?
Problems rarely come in ones, and this fuel crisis lands on top of an income crisis.
Tillage farmers walking away, dairy farmers milking for less than the milk costs.
One dairyman told me this week his farm loses โฌ200 every time he sets foot inside the parlour, which is twice a day.
That makes it very difficult for contractors like Irvine to add to those farmers' woes.
Given that you know that your clients are price takers, they don't have control, they can't ask for more money.
How do you feel about having to impose or ask them for the President Trump surcharge?
That's a big behemoth of a machine.
Oh, look, sorry, 7,180 on the side of it.
I should have read it, shouldn't I?