Geoffrey James Bates,Bertram Francis Charles Quin,Raymond Andrew Simpkin,George Terry Palmer
申请号：
NZ70249013
公开号：
NZ702490A
申请日:
2013.11.04
申请国别(地区):
NZ
年份:
2017
代理人:
摘要：
This invention relates to an apparatus for travelling over a ground surface, the apparatus including detection means for detecting an area of the ground surface (or sub-ground surface) which has had a deposition of excreta, and treatment means for treating the area with at least one substance. The apparatus may preferably be automated. In a preferred embodiment, the excreta being detected may be cattle urine and the substance(s) used to treat the area of deposition of urine may be a nitrate inhibitor and/or a urease inhibitor. Regular use of the invention prevents the conversion of nitrogen in the cattle urine (in the form of urea) from being transformed into nitrate-N and ammonium-N, thus preventing or minimising undesirable nitrate leaching.
