- Location
- Exeter, Devon
I mentioned recently on the Tesco’s add thread that I’ve just had a go at doing a farm carbon audit.
I used the “farmcarbontoolkit” and got on reasonably well with it. The input side was relatively straightforward, though there were a few bits that weren’t very clear. The sequestration side was more of a challenge. It maybe that I was hoping for something too simplistic, but it mainly requires soil carbon measurements to have been taken last year and this. Has anyone come across a system which allows cropping and yield/grazing numbers to work this out?
If not, has anyone experience of having soil carbon content measured? We have a considerable range of soils across the farm, and I would imagine there would need to be a lot of samples taken, and presumably quite a cost?
I’m convinced this is something that many of us will benefit from doing, both in terms of improving sequestration, as well as self promotion and a counter to the vegan argument for grass fed producers of beef and lamb. In due course I suspect it will also play a part in farm payments, so good to get in ahead of the rest. I’m sure I’ve read of at least 1 of the collective doing this but can’t remember who.
Out of interest, by adding a factor (which I guessed) of increasing carbon content by 0.1%, we were carbon negative by around 960 tonnes, but I can’t rely on this figure.
I used the “farmcarbontoolkit” and got on reasonably well with it. The input side was relatively straightforward, though there were a few bits that weren’t very clear. The sequestration side was more of a challenge. It maybe that I was hoping for something too simplistic, but it mainly requires soil carbon measurements to have been taken last year and this. Has anyone come across a system which allows cropping and yield/grazing numbers to work this out?
If not, has anyone experience of having soil carbon content measured? We have a considerable range of soils across the farm, and I would imagine there would need to be a lot of samples taken, and presumably quite a cost?
I’m convinced this is something that many of us will benefit from doing, both in terms of improving sequestration, as well as self promotion and a counter to the vegan argument for grass fed producers of beef and lamb. In due course I suspect it will also play a part in farm payments, so good to get in ahead of the rest. I’m sure I’ve read of at least 1 of the collective doing this but can’t remember who.
Out of interest, by adding a factor (which I guessed) of increasing carbon content by 0.1%, we were carbon negative by around 960 tonnes, but I can’t rely on this figure.