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

Lincsman

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
I am doing lots this year to help, due to price of fert I have not bought, I will be fallowing more that ever, so thats lots of diesel and chemical saved along with Fert, I must email Greta to see if she wants to come and praise my efforts and award me with a medal.
 

ajd132

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Suffolk
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.
I just wondered what would happen to sea levels that’s all.

I think you can do all the things you mention and still be conscientious about it. It’s not black and white
 

teslacoils

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
I just wondered what would happen to sea levels that’s all.

I think you can do all the things you mention and still be conscientious about it. It’s not black and white

I'm sure there are countless experts who will argue one way or another. If I lived in Bangladesh, or a low lying coral atol I'd be a bit more bothered.

If there's a problem it's up to government to sort it. I'm not lowering my living standard so 200 Chinese can all have better holidays than me.
 

glasshouse

Member
Location
lothians
Mindful of it, and doing what I can.
But ultimately my GHG reductions have been market driven by cost savings (fuel / fert) and time savings: reductions in tillage, and melting our own liquid fert using waste ammonium sulphate from a chemical plant.

We’ve done lots of insulation and double glazing on farmhouse and cottages.

Building aspect (SE/NW) doesn’t lend itself to effective solar production, and biomass / offsetting is nothing less than a scam.

Wind power planning was thwarted by some terminally short sighted SNP councillors who were more worried about ‘the effect on tourism’ than mitigating the farms effect on the environment or creating income to be circulated in the local economy. ScotGov instead chose to allow Fred Olsen and Iberdrola to build the largest wind farms in Europe, and watch all of the profit go offshore.

And I don’t believe we should ‘wait for China to ban coal’ etc, we need to get our house in order. Even if ‘The Climate Emergency’ is debunked as a doomsday cult (and it has it’s share of nutters), every litre of refined diesel or kg of AN is reduction from a finite ‘fossil fuel’ total, and we need to work on the alternatives now.
Not many snp councillors in the borders
If i remember correctly , it was the tories and the dukes who hated windpower.
 

ajd132

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Suffolk
I'm sure there are countless experts who will argue one way or another. If I lived in Bangladesh, or a low lying coral atol I'd be a bit more bothered.

If there's a problem it's up to government to sort it. I'm not lowering my living standard so 200 Chinese can all have better holidays than me.
Fair enough
 
Simple things really. Started checking the packaging when shopping to check things are produced in Britain. There was a time when I always shopped for the cheapest and didn't really look. Nowadays happily pay a bit extra. Don't agree with all this anti cattle farming agenda its a load of nonsense. I will look for locally produced and continue eating meat as normal.
 

4course

Member
Location
north yorks
Simple things really. Started checking the packaging when shopping to check things are produced in Britain. There was a time when I always shopped for the cheapest and didn't really look. Nowadays happily pay a bit extra. Don't agree with all this anti cattle farming agenda its a load of nonsense. I will look for locally produced and continue eating meat as normal.
around the time of the brexit vote there was a lot of talk that this would happen didnt believe it then and havnt seen it since
 

David.

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
J11 M40
Blowing your nose first, and thus wetting the bog-roll, does bring with it unpleasant possibility of "finger through the paper syndrome".
 

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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