Ross’ Slurry Tanker Does it All!

With winter throwing up some challenges for farmers, having a contingency plan in place will ensure they remain compliant with their local council and dairy company.

it’s important to be prepared for power outages. Consider purchasing backup generators or alternative sources of energy to ensure your farm can continue to operate during outages. By taking these steps now, you can have peace of mind knowing your farm is as protected as you can make it against the challenges and uncertainties of the winter months.

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Michael Prestidge is a Nevada Effluent management specialist.

It fills in less than 4 minutes, and the RainWave applicators are just real easy. We go about 4km/h and it’s got a very even spread. It’s real simple and it works well.

Ross Clark owns a 600 cow dairy farm in Midhurst and sharemilks on a 700 cow dairy farm further down the coast.

The two farms have quite different effluent storage set-ups. Ross’ farm has two Herd Homes® and 3 effluent ponds, while the other farm has a 5,000,000L pond. So there’s a lot of effluent to manage.

After learning a bit more about Ross’ situation, Mike at Nevada suggested a slurry tanker to solve the issues across both farms. A slurry tanker would be able to clean out the Herd Homes® as well as the thicker slurry in the tank. He’d also be able to spread when and where he wanted.

‘Now we can just leave the cows in their [Herd Homes®], lift a couple of grates, give it a stir, and suck it all out with the slurry tanker. We can just do what we want now, and it’s a lot quicker.’

Ross did shop around at other slurry tanker options, but ultimately chose to go for a Nevada 20,150L slurry tanker with loading accelerator.

‘It has everything we wanted – turbo-fill, 8” sucker line, and the pricing was very competitive.’