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Carbon negative beef - Belcampo Farms, California
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This looks interesting and showcases the positive climate impact that all livestock bring.
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A shame the BBC bigots don't take notice of this sort of thing.
It winds me up when they bash beef and have a video clip of cattle grazing in a field.
It winds me up when they bash beef and have a video clip of cattle grazing in a field.
Edited for you, because all beef is carbon negative.
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- Scotland
What happens when the soils reach carbon saturation?
Will the farm revert to being carbon negative?
Will the farm revert to being carbon negative?
- Where do you ship?
We ship throughout the U.S. (excluding Alaska and Hawaii).
So that's greener than our cattle in a shed right next door to the butchery counter ? Nah.
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- East Sussex
Good for them. I mean that genuinely too.
if I had my skeptics hat on I'd be referring you too my post in another thread
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if I had my skeptics hat on I'd be referring you too my post in another thread
Is it just me?
Aren’t you forgetting the bacteria that break down organic matter, releasing vast volumes of C02 into the atmosphere when you plough or cultivate the soil? I now Zero-till my crops and use just 12.5% of the fuel I used to use when I ploughed, combi-drilled and rolled them to establish them...
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- Devon
Ever the Ray of sunshine aren't you.
You build more soil.
How deep were the soils of the great American plains before they started cultivating them causing erosion?
and those American plains soil were helped to build by millions of buffalo wandering around the place.
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farmerm
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- Shropshire
So if as farmers we build more soil are we "offsetting" fossil carbon emissions or are we simply restoring the carbon that has been lost from soils due to generations of agricultural activity?
spin cycle
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- north norfolk
in this country xxxxxxxxx pigs reckon they've 14 sites now carbon neutral
truth is that a lot of us are already carbon neutral or even negative
truth is that a lot of us are already carbon neutral or even negative
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- Devon
Does the fossil fuel industry feel the need to offset the billions of tons burnt in generations past or just future use?
farmerm
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- Shropshire
Offsetting is merely a technical exercise for the purposes of redistributing wealth not carbon.... If we are to avoid run away global warming we actually need to sequester more carbon than is emitted.. building soil carbon or planting trees in one locality when globally the soil carbon and forest cover continues to show a net decline is like trying to stem a cut artery with a Peppa Pig plaster
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- Devon
Fully agree with your offsetting point. It makes me
But your 2nd point makes no sense. That's saying there's no point me doing anything cos its a drop in the ocean. If we all think like that nothing will ever be done.
farmerm
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- Shropshire
My point is it is equally important to cut CO2 emissions regardless of source, be they fossil fuel, soil carbon or forest. There is little point (from a climate change view point) in me sequestering small amounts of soil carbon if farmers elsewhere continue to oxidise their soil carbon by cultivating organic soils.... there is little point me planting a tree only for 10 to be felled somewhere else in the world. Soil sequestration is of limited value if we do not also do more to reduce carbon emissions from all sources, not just fossil fuels. At what point will we realise we are not going to get the global cooperation that is necessary to avoid climate change? When do nations start to invest in measures to mitigating against climate change rather than investing in measures which will ultimately fail to stop what is now almost certainly inevitable?Fully agree with your offsetting point. It makes me
But your 2nd point makes no sense. That's saying there's no point me doing anything cos its a drop in the ocean. If we all think like that nothing will ever be done.
Can’t really see they are doing much different then we are except we have a darn sight more hedges which should put us well above them in the pecking order.Good for them. I mean that genuinely too.
if I had my skeptics hat on I'd be referring you too my post in another thread
Is it just me?
Aren’t you forgetting the bacteria that break down organic matter, releasing vast volumes of C02 into the atmosphere when you plough or cultivate the soil? I now Zero-till my crops and use just 12.5% of the fuel I used to use when I ploughed, combi-drilled and rolled them to establish them...
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- Devon
Are you saying forget trying to combat climate change and instead build bigger flood defences?
farmerm
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- Shropshire
I am saying at some point that decision will have to be made... if climate change and sea level rises are unavoidable, and given the lack of international agreement they surely are, the sooner we start making the decisions and investments towards what can be protected and what will have to be abandoned the better.
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- Essex
Both
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- Essex
Yes because they offload all their emissions onto the fertiliser, farmer and retailer. Probably