What are YOU doing to mitigate against Climate Change?

Doing your bit

  • Yes, I am doing everything I can

    Votes: 8 4.3%
  • Yes, I have changed a few things

    Votes: 45 24.2%
  • Yes but very minor

    Votes: 49 26.3%
  • Changed nothing

    Votes: 77 41.4%
  • No, I have made it a bit worse

    Votes: 5 2.7%
  • No, I have changed a lot

    Votes: 2 1.1%

  • Total voters
    186

4course

Member
Location
north yorks
It’s an interesting thought whether you believe in it or not.

I have to confess I have done nothing. In fact, probably worse as we plough a lot albeit we are intending to look at strip till for maize

To be honest, it will only be cost saving measures we adopt to the benefit of the business rather than the planet.

I am off to stand in a corner. Anyone joining me?
Im sat in a corner , that is of the garden soaking up the sunshine with a coffee and at this moment in time dont have a care in the world all sown up all animals enjoying the sun on their backs a shed full of grain worth more than even I optimistically thought possible to sell at some point to feed the world and enough fodder to withstand either drought or floods for 18 months , reckon ive done my bit
 

Bald Rick

Moderator
Livestock Farmer
Location
Anglesey
Is the OP question asking what we are doing to lesson our contribution to change or what measures we are taking to mitigate its effects on us? For the latter I have decided not to buy a beach front house or one on a floodplain.... Beyond that what specific changes would you be mitigating against? I certainly don't know with any confidence exactly what global climate changes will mean for the local weather patterns... it could be this farm gets hotter and drier, it could be it gets hotter but wetter, it could become colder and drier or drier and wetter....

The OP can either be taken at a personal level or business level i.e. your own contribution

Mine is probably to make both personal and business emissions worse until it makes financial sense to make it better.
 

Bury the Trash

Member
Mixed Farmer
The OP can either be taken at a personal level or business level i.e. your own contribution

Mine is probably to make both personal and business emissions worse until it makes financial sense to make it better.
That will come dont do worry and more likely a stick rather than a carrot, ie no more cheaper diesel for AG.
 

2wheels

Member
Location
aberdeenshire
Im sat in a corner , that is of the garden soaking up the sunshine with a coffee and at this moment in time dont have a care in the world all sown up all animals enjoying the sun on their backs a shed full of grain worth more than even I optimistically thought possible to sell at some point to feed the world and enough fodder to withstand either drought or floods for 18 months , reckon ive done my bit
better get that grain sold before the price collapses. :D
 

puppet

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
sw scotland
I am going to plant some trees mainly because I like trees and the taxpayer is going to thank me for doing it.
My carbon audit is 4% emissions from fuel and leccy. 96% is related to ruminants in some way so there is an obvious way to reduce GHGs and it isn't by switching a few lights off.
 

Poorbuthappy

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Devon
When airplanes are grounded, I'll start to think about doing something. Don't really know what. No till maybe, but what's the carbon footprint of manufacturing a new drill ?
Thats like asking what's the carbon footprint of a new 7610.
You don't have to buy new.

To answer the op.
Somewhere between the first 2 options. Very few of us could claim we're doing "all we can", but would like to think we're doing more than "changing a few things"
 
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C.J

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
South Devon

What are YOU doing to mitigate against Climate Change?​


I guess it depends which way you think its going to go - I believe the current warming peaked in the last decade, and that our climate has changed to one of more High pressure and less low pressure like we had in the 70's and 80's when I was growing up.The beasts from the East and the Dry springs/summers have returned.

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The Meridional (wavy) Jet Stream is a result of the Grand Solar Minimum we will be in for the next 3 solar cycles.

What have I done to mitigate this ? well this summer I have reroofed the old pig stys in my back yard so I now have 20 CuM of en suite log storage.We have also processed up another 20 CuM for next winter which is in an old cart linhay , in a windy location , and already well seasoned.

Who knows , if gas , coal and electric prices continue to rise , firewood may be worth selling as we have plenty of sick looking Ash and Beech to replace it.
 
Location
southwest
Bought a caravan, so we don't have to do international flights :rolleyes:.
People have been ploughing for millenia, why is it suddenly any worse than it ever has been? Certainly isn't likely to be more ploughed worldwide than 100yrs ago, and the world is supposed to have gone to crap in that time span.

No one has to do international flights. or any flights at all.

Man Utd squad flew to Leicester (100 miles) for their match yesterday as the motorways were busy!

Given they would have had to drive to the airport and from the airport to the ground, it's highly questionable whether they saved any time anyway.
 

ajd132

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Suffolk
IMHO the biggest danger for everyone is HMG, Civil Service and Authorities - their draconian policies are already very damaging.


I was looking recently at the "Forecast" timeline for "Climate Bollox" in the Guardian.

I think worst case was 4 degrees in about 100 years, so in other words nothing much at all. UK cities are 3 degrees higher today than their surroundings so the pretense that even 1 degree is going to make lives a "Disaster" is a sick joke.

We still haven't got any data given by anybody on how much CO2 heats the environment. We do have comments that Methane and Water are 100x more powerful than CO2. But nothing concrete that somebody could be sued over.

So there's plenty of movement there for the Environmental loonies to have a "Get out of jail free" card if things don't work out - which IMHO is pretty obvious it won't work.
4 degrees across the whole planet would have quite a considerable effect on human kind…..
 

teslacoils

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
I used the BBC "what will it be like" thing. Put in my postcode.

Says summer will have 15 days of 25 degrees plus....rather than three!

A hot summer say will be two to four degrees hotter!

Summer now has 9 rainy days. A rise of four degrees would see us....go down to seven!

Summer rain totals could rise....by two percent! Winter rain could rise in intensity, but not in total quantity.

Spin that how you like but it sounds.....pretty much idea for me. More summer, more heat, less snow, less frost, fewer rainy days in summer. I'd move abroad for that kind of brilliance.

 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

  • 0 %

    Votes: 75 43.6%
  • Up to 25%

    Votes: 61 35.5%
  • 25-50%

    Votes: 27 15.7%
  • 50-75%

    Votes: 3 1.7%
  • 75-100%

    Votes: 3 1.7%
  • 100% I’ve had enough of farming!

    Votes: 3 1.7%

Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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