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Monitor and reduce your emissions

Understanding GHG emissions

In the UK, agriculture, forestry and fishing are the main sources of two of the more powerful greenhouse gases: nitrous oxide and methane.

With farming increasingly under the environmental spotlight, you need to know what your farm is emitting.

Gathering actual data will not only enable you to communicate the benefits of your farming system to customers and potential funders but will also stand you in good stead as policymakers look to reward farms that are minimising emissions and actively sequestering soil carbon.

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Using the Farm Carbon Calculator

The Farm Carbon Calculator provides a highly detailed emissions analysis of all aspects of your farm business – from farm buildings and tractors, to feed and fuel use, livestock management, and cropping, as well as carbon sequestration potential. And it’s continually being updated and improved as new science emerges.

We can help gather the comprehensive data you need to make the process quicker and more accurate – and far less stressful!

How this helps you

Reducing GHG emissions

Produce high-quality food, enhance farmland biodiversity and reduce associated GHG emissions by making adjustments to the way your business operates.

Support

Farmer-to-farmer support and information sharing is an effective means for ‘best practice’ dissemination and enabling on-the-ground action. Be part of the FCT community.

Profitability

Farm management changes to reduce GHG emissions can benefit farm profitability and the marketability of farm produce in an increasingly environmentally conscious market.

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Building soil health from the ground up

Become economically and environmentally sustainable, in any agricultural system.