Monitor and reduce your emissions
Adopting practices and management strategies that reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions doesn’t just benefit the environment – it can make real business sense, too.
For a number of years, we have worked closely with the Farm Carbon Toolkit (FCT), a farmer-led initiative designed to encourage and support farmers and growers to reduce their farm GHG emissions, increase farm energy resilience and, in doing so, improve the overall resilience of farming businesses.
The Farm Carbon Calculator is one of the most popular and user-friendly tools for monitoring and measuring your farm’s soil carbon footprint.
We can work with you to use the Farm Carbon Calculator so you can see your baseline position and identify where your farm business emits – or sequesters – greenhouse gases.
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.
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.