Environment
There has been no move made to ban splash plates for slurry spreading, according to John Comer of the ICMSA and Sinn Fein's Martin Kenny.
Machinery
At the moment there is a growing fear among farmers that steps could be taken to ban splash-plate slurry spreading systems in the future.
The FCI is in favour of a future end-date for splash-plate slurry spreading systems, on a number of conditions.
Retrofitting an old slurry tank with a trailing shoe spreading system can prove quite difficult and expensive for a variety of reasons.
