This is of course correct, but the BFU is only a fledgling organisation and everything has to start somewhere.
The first one you have highlighted is an easy win - close Drax power station, or at least remove the subsidy for imported wood pellet from non-sustainable sources.
This is only concerned with food. Drax doesn’t come into it. They are talking about reducing biomass used for animal feed. As pork and chicken are relatively efficient for kg of feed to kg of meat production it doesn’t take a genius to work out where they are looking to target the bulk of the biomass cuts, it’s cattle and sheep.
In otherwords less cattle/sheep
Direct drill in the spring after a grazed off cover crop. Usually add a kilo of turnips so there is something to graze the following March.
Funny really, because anyone trying to improve their soil organic carbon can only do that with increased biomass production.
But that carbon is going into the soil, not the food chain (as the retailer sees it). This is about food retailer making UK farmers carry all the burden of the WWF Basket targets that they have committed to.
You know better than me, that biomass passing through an animal quickly becomes soil organic matter through its enhanced enhanced biological status.
If everyone cancelled their membership this morning, would tankers come to collect tomorrow? Cause they would. Supermarkets wouldn't want empty shelves or the bad publicity when the GP find out why.
You and I know that, but this isn't about farming it's about creative carbon accounting by retailers. They are cooking up a way of using UK farms to offset their carbon emissions (at our cost) and importing food a least cost.
I joined 6 weeks ago , can't get on BFU page
Hi Chris, can you check mine too please? TIA
