Alert over suspect diesel for tractors

FARMERS have been urged to ensure that they use diesel supplies from reliable sources in their tractor engines, following reports of pump failure from the use of poor quality fuels.

Despite what could be termed the relatively low cost of agricultural diesel, supplies of the fuel from dubious sources had found their way to farms, the Farm Tractor and Machinery Trade Association said.

The association said these supplies had come from a variety of spurious operators who were converting agricultural diesel to colourless diesel in illegal operations. Some of the diesel fuel, which failed to convert, had ended up on farms.