Slurry Tanker: Mark Solved His Council Compliance Issues

Mark runs two farms over in rural Whakatane, with 210 and 240 cows respectively. Located across the road from each other, each farm has its own milking and effluent storage operations and had previously been spreading to paddocks with irrigators. The issue with both farms is the drains…

Not only was council compliance restricting the area available for nutrient spreading but setting up irrigators to only apply a maximum of 5mm for 10,000 litres took up quite a bit of time. Mark’s father, Brian had made enquiries with Nevada when he ran the farm, and Mark had previously hired a Nevada tanker from a contractor so he gave Nevada a call. After a few phone calls and a virtual farm visit on Google, Mike was able to put together a package that would resolve their effluent issues.

The solution was simple, and with the two farms just across the road from each other Mark agreed it made sense to get a slurry tanker. Mark bought the Nevada MB100EX Slurry Tanker along with a Nevada TurboStir 6000 PTO Stirrer with Pond Liner Protection Kit, PTO Pump and Greenback Irrigator. He now gets the best of both worlds by utilising both the slurry tanker and travelling irrigator system.

With his new single axle 10,000L Nevada Slurry Tanker Mark’s now able to spread when he wants and apply nutrients over more pasture without worrying about it getting into drains. He’s set up two auto-fill docking stations, one for each farm so it’s easy to stop, drop and go.