Written by Charlotte Cunningham from CPM Magazine
Download PDF With carbon calculators flooding the market of late, Hutchinsons has developed a new tool within its Omnia platform which incorporates multi-layers of data to provide what is claimed to be a highly efficient way of calculating the true cost of carbon on farm. CPM finds out more. Our view is that managing carbon is not actually about carbon – it’s about managing good business. By Charlotte Cunningham Whether it’s minimising its loss or sequestering it, carbon is everywhere you look in agriculture. It’s clearly understood that improved farm productivity is good for business and for carbon. But the challenge as always been how to measure how much it has cost in terms of carbon to produce a particular crop. As such, there’s been an undoubtable surge in carbon calculation tools on the market. However, some of these tools have faced criticism, both in terms of their usefulness and validity. But a new carbon module within Hutchinsons’ Omnia platform – tried and tested on its Helix ‘proofing’ farm – has been designed to tackle just this, providing users with arguably one of the most in-depth tools on the market. The Production module allows growers to calculate the carbon cost…
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Download PDF With carbon calculators flooding the market of late, Hutchinsons has developed a new tool within its Omnia platform which incorporates multi-layers of data to provide what is claimed to be a highly efficient way of calculating the true cost of carbon on farm. CPM finds out more. Our view is that managing carbon is not actually about carbon – it’s about managing good business. By Charlotte Cunningham Whether it’s minimising its loss or sequestering it, carbon is everywhere you look in agriculture. It’s clearly understood that improved farm productivity is good for business and for carbon. But the challenge as always been how to measure how much it has cost in terms of carbon to produce a particular crop. As such, there’s been an undoubtable surge in carbon calculation tools on the market. However, some of these tools have faced criticism, both in terms of their usefulness and validity. But a new carbon module within Hutchinsons’ Omnia platform – tried and tested on its Helix ‘proofing’ farm – has been designed to tackle just this, providing users with arguably one of the most in-depth tools on the market. The Production module allows growers to calculate the carbon cost…
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