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Download PDF As growers continue making progress towards Net Zero, AHDB highlighted some of the key issues and opportunities during its recent ‘Carbon Week’. CPM finds out more. Carbon is a currency that we need to understand. By Charlotte Cunningham Sustainable farming has been getting a lot of airtime lately, and while what farmers ‘should’ be doing is pretty well covered, how to do it is sometimes less well explained. That said, there’s been a surge in widespread collaboration across the industry to come together and ensure we’re working collectively in order to meet the NFU’s Net Zero by 2040 target. Most recently, AHDB held an online ‘Carbon Week’ bringing together key voices from across the industry to enable this wider knowledge transfer. CPM joined the webinars and picked out some of the ‘best bits’ to provide growers with a better understanding of some of the ways in which they can make changes on farm to promote a more sustainable future. Starting right at the top, carbon accounting – sometimes called carbon footprinting – has become a core tool for those looking to calculate their key sources of emissions on farm. However, with many different methods of doing so, it…
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