Suzanne Campbell

How many horsepower is that?

It's 180 horsepower.

Is that all?

Yeah, that's all.

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?

What if there was commercially viable battery alternative to that?

Is that the way to future-proof your business against yet another one of these crises?

Definitely.

So you're telling me that you're at a point where you would be open to considering this technology, where you would have been sceptical in the past, perhaps?

I would be open to thinking about it

What's the point muddling our way through this crisis and not changing anything before the next one?

Irvine Rothwell, just outside Ferry Carrig in Wexford.

So, are there farm-ready battery tractors out there?

Is there a way of bypassing the Straits of Hormuz on the way to the silage pit?

When I suggested this on the programme last week to Francie Gorman and Dennis Drennan, we got a number of very sceptical texts, 51551, most of which said there was no way that an e-tractor would have the battery life that they needed for their farm.

Well, hang on to your charging sockets, people, because we've got news for you.

Fent, one of the posher tractor brands about, think Mercedes if it was a car, has a 100 horsepower battery tractor that it says will do most jobs around the yard and a full day's work on just a single charge.

And it's going to be in showrooms in Ireland next month.