Suzanne Campbell

You can buy it ex-factory right now, though.

There was one in Northampton in England yesterday afternoon and Fent salesman Philip Matty took me for a virtual tour of it.

I asked him, did he like it?

So as you look around the cab that you're sitting in now, it really is no different to the diesel alternative.

Will you open the cab door and just start up the engine so that we get some idea of how it sounds?

Of course, of course.

There you have it.

Now, look, the big question amongst all of our listeners, and I'm sure it's the very first thing that everybody who comes to you is asking is, how long will the battery last?

Would you be confident that a livestock farmer would be able to take this and do all of those farmyard jobs like scraping sheds, feeding silage, stacking bales, running diet feeders and so on that they do with their diesel engine and be able to do a day's work on a single charge?

Is there any dairy farmer, is there any suckler beef farmer in the UK who's bought one of these?

Now, you can get these in Ireland if you order them ex-factory right now, and they will be in showrooms within a month's time.

What kind of retail price are they going to go for?

I'm not going to lie.

That's a steep price.

That is a lot of money for a 100 horsepower tractor.

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 that

those that you're talking to, that this is a clever hedge, a clever thing to do now.