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

Poncherello1976

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Oxfordshire
What amuses me is that the Met Office, which is a great supporter of climate change, keeps telling us what the weather is going to be like in fifty years time, and everyone accepts it, hook, line and sinker, when they can’t forecast a few days in advance with any accuracy!!
Don't get me started on the Met Office. They keep banging on about climate change, but are happy to litter the countryside with climate testing equipment and expect us to clear it up. I had a right go at the and relieved them of £140 for the privilege.
I appreciate they need to do this work, but in this day an age there must be a better way. In my eyes its in the same league as fly tipping.
As for the OP, have done/in the process of doing several things that are of benefit for the environment, but not because of it. It makes financial sense for me to do it, but happens to be better environmentally. Moving towards DD, planting cover crops and trees, biomass boiler, and an electric car, not disturbing my PP.
 

Spencer

Member
Location
North West
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?
On the contrary..

You are producing healthy proteins from a carbon sequestering business, you can't get much more eco climate friendly than that.

STOP APOLOGISING... agriculture is not the enemy as our blooming agricultural body keeps admitting! Not For Us aren't fit for purpose.
 

ajd132

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Suffolk
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.

What happens if The Arctic is 4 degrees hotter?
 

ski

Member
Why is it that when my friends complain about the inaccurate weather forecasts, I point out it is broadly the same people in the same met office that are using the same computer models to make all the doomsday scenarios and ask them why they have so much confidence in those predictions?
 

Frank-the-Wool

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
East Sussex
I am worried about my logs.

I seem to have been reading that logs are polluting the atmosphere and we should no longer have wood burners or open fires.
Now if I burn more dry seasoned logs, I will use less oil and gas.
Is this a positive for the climate or a negative?

I plant trees and hedges and coppice woodland. If I didn't cut and burn the waste it would lay and rot and slowly return t the ground. By not maintaining the woods they gradually die and presumably absorb less Co2?
When we coppice timber we burn the tops, some say we should just leave it in piles, however this shades out the ground and reduces the flowers and other plants that naturally regenerate afterwards.
It has been suggested that we cart it off and it is turned into woodchip for power stations, but my simple mind tells me that this will use an awful lot of energy in hauling it and turning it into chips.

Someone please tell me that it is alright to keep burning logs from a natural and renewable resource or I won't sleep at night in front of the fire!!
 

Lincsman

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
I am worried about my logs.

I seem to have been reading that logs are polluting the atmosphere and we should no longer have wood burners or open fires.
Now if I burn more dry seasoned logs, I will use less oil and gas.
Is this a positive for the climate or a negative?

I plant trees and hedges and coppice woodland. If I didn't cut and burn the waste it would lay and rot and slowly return t the ground. By not maintaining the woods they gradually die and presumably absorb less Co2?
When we coppice timber we burn the tops, some say we should just leave it in piles, however this shades out the ground and reduces the flowers and other plants that naturally regenerate afterwards.
It has been suggested that we cart it off and it is turned into woodchip for power stations, but my simple mind tells me that this will use an awful lot of energy in hauling it and turning it into chips.

Someone please tell me that it is alright to keep burning logs from a natural and renewable resource or I won't sleep at night in front of the fire!!
Make it all into little pellets (using lots of energy) and send to drax, you can then claim to be carbon negative... works for them.
 

teslacoils

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
What happens if The Arctic is 4 degrees hotter?

I simply don't care.

Life is short so enjoy it. Eat well, party hard, drink, smoke a cigar, fly to exotic places, see waterfalls and natural wonders......or you can live to 100 in a sodding care home, looking forward to dominos, Songs of Praise, and a trip to the garden centre.

Get this place paid off a bit more each year, then keep the house for home base, rent the land out and merrily off I fukk adventuring until I die.
 

Bald Rick

Moderator
Livestock Farmer
Location
Anglesey
I am worried about my logs.

I seem to have been reading that logs are polluting the atmosphere and we should no longer have wood burners or open fires.
Now if I burn more dry seasoned logs, I will use less oil and gas.
Is this a positive for the climate or a negative?

I plant trees and hedges and coppice woodland. If I didn't cut and burn the waste it would lay and rot and slowly return t the ground. By not maintaining the woods they gradually die and presumably absorb less Co2?
When we coppice timber we burn the tops, some say we should just leave it in piles, however this shades out the ground and reduces the flowers and other plants that naturally regenerate afterwards.
It has been suggested that we cart it off and it is turned into woodchip for power stations, but my simple mind tells me that this will use an awful lot of energy in hauling it and turning it into chips.

Someone please tell me that it is alright to keep burning logs from a natural and renewable resource or I won't sleep at night in front of the fire!!

Courtesy of Roger Latham, Private Eye issue 1558 ...

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Jonp

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Gwent
Going to stay in my old little caravan on the farm..no mains electic or water and no TV.
No fert and minimal chemicals. Keep old jeep going as long as possible along with 20 year old Zetor.
Going to enjoy and look after my cattle and sheep so they'll look after me. Think my farm is very environmentally friendly and so do all the wildlife and thousands of trees around me.
I'm living the dream 😬,it's tough at times (the winter) but very rewarding all told.
Really can't be arsed with the outside world anymore.
Friends and family worth their weight in gold.....and my smart phone of course!
 
I'll change the way I operate when the military industrial complex is abolished, the internet no longer streams adverts, Netflix and all the the other pointless crap and politicians, dignitaries and heads of state stop flying around the world to conferences about the environment. Not to mention billionaires, who could feed the world if they wanted having Willie waving competitions in outer space.
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

  • 0 %

    Votes: 80 42.3%
  • Up to 25%

    Votes: 66 34.9%
  • 25-50%

    Votes: 30 15.9%
  • 50-75%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 75-100%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 100% I’ve had enough of farming!

    Votes: 7 3.7%

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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