Do you calculate your farm carbon footprint?

[Dr Renuka Thakore]

Do you calculate your farm's carbon footprint?

 

[An Gof]

No

 

[melted welly]

Yes and it showed what a crock of shite the exercise was.

 

[Flatlander]

If you do I think you need more work to do.

 

[Flatlander]

Yes and it showed what a crock of shite the exercise was.

Just another form of tax thst worldwide government are charging rather that admit they are broke.

 

[melted welly]

If you do I think you need more work to do.

Me?

My issue is why do we absorb the carbon for all of our inputs and also our outputs? We sell thousands of tonnes of sequestered carbon in solid form yet that doesn’t appear on the audit.

And the reason I’ve been told is that it’s “short term” and if we didn’t grow the grain, someone else would.

But if I didn’t use the diesel, someone else would

Oh…… no…….. that’s different.

 

[melted welly]

Just another form of tax thst worldwide government are charging rather that admit they are broke.

Sorry misunderstood your post

 

[nick...]

No idea about any of it
nick...

 

[britishblue]

My carbon footprint is what it is! In a wet year when I need to use more fuel to dry my grain it will go up and in a dry year it will go down..
It makes bugger all difference if you put a figure on it!

 

[R J]

No

 

[4course]

my footprints vary depending on which shoes or boots im wearing and this depends on the weather which folk tell me is affected by carbon but how to measure it that is accurate or has not got some wizz kid (business) trying to to steal any benefit from you is another matter.

 

[merino]

I've had it done.

A thoroughly miserable experience.

I got lectured for a full hour by the wifey running it on my various professional shortcomings.

Then i found out that I was effectively billed at full rate rate for both producing milling wheat and also for buying in barley.

Same goes for the reseeds, permanent pastures great apparently, i was heftily penalised for my reseeding, but the comparatively low productivity of the permanent pasture is also penalised.

I had bought 300 sheep that last autumn and fed them accordingly and lambed them successfully. Only last years lamb crop could be included in the project.

Amusingly my clearing 2000m³ of woodchip off the place has no bearing on the figures.

 

[Huno]

Do you calculate your farm's carbon footprint?

Yes we do.. and the sooner the general public are forced to measure theirs the quicker society will realise that they are burning the planet not us? debate..

 

[4course]

Do you calculate your farm's carbon footprint?

why? and for whose benefit? plus any calculation is subject to such wide interpretation and inaccuracies so any figure is inaccurate is therefore meaningless and depends on whose agenda its done for .

 

[Frank-the-Wool]

Perhaps the OP should have included her CV!!​

I cannot understand what any of this means anyway.

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Biography​

Dr Renuka Thakore, PhD, MSc, BSc (Hons) PIEMA AFHEA, Founder of Global Sustainable Futures: Progress through Partnership Network, University College of Estate Management, UK, provides leadership to a global network, administering multidisciplinary activities and research partnerships development platform. Her research interests include sustainability and sustainable development and transformations. Her passion is to investigate the challenges of natural and societal systems and identify emerging trends that are competent in offering sustainable solutions. She contributes to this knowledge by revealing the strategic reality of real-world problems researched through transdisciplinarity and systems thinking. She is trying to widen the knowledge base from concepts to the real world, bringing together technologies, future scenarios, different elements of the built environment, societal systems evaluated through the multi-dimensional integrated framing of sustainable development.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Yes, because I wanted to see how wateright it was and what I could see.

Turns out I could see that it isn't really that robust at all as I got present to it being a "straight line exercise" and it cannot be that way.
Nothing behaves that way outside of human contructs, in nature you have all these wonderful examples of cascades and compunding.... and then there's the graph guys with their rulers out.

I mean if modelling worked then we'd have reason to believe in all the bunkum we're supposed to. And if soil testing worked then farmers would be richer than fert companies and there is insufficient trust that it isn't just "another racket about"

I'd prefer things just worked as well as possible and look there for improvements and action to take

 

[soapsud]

my footprints vary depending on which shoes or boots im wearing and this depends on the weather which folk tell me is affected by carbon but how to measure it that is accurate or has not got some wizz kid (business) trying to to steal any benefit from you is another matter.

It's like the double glazing salesman who rings up every month and us telling him we don't have windows as we prefer Linux.

 

[4course]

Perhaps the OP should have included her CV!!​

I cannot understand what any of this means anyway.

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Biography​

Dr Renuka Thakore, PhD, MSc, BSc (Hons) PIEMA AFHEA, Founder of Global Sustainable Futures: Progress through Partnership Network, University College of Estate Management, UK, provides leadership to a global network, administering multidisciplinary activities and research partnerships development platform. Her research interests include sustainability and sustainable development and transformations. Her passion is to investigate the challenges of natural and societal systems and identify emerging trends that are competent in offering sustainable solutions. She contributes to this knowledge by revealing the strategic reality of real-world problems researched through transdisciplinarity and systems thinking. She is trying to widen the knowledge base from concepts to the real world, bringing together technologies, future scenarios, different elements of the built environment, societal systems evaluated through the multi-dimensional integrated framing of sustainable development.

ah ,on reading this impressive goblydegook im sure the good doctor has or surely will come to the conclusion that the only way to fullfil her passion for the earths sustainability is to dramatically reduce the worlds human population now this can be done quite quickly by either war plague or killing of babies or what seems to be the front runner currently is stop farmers producing food therefore causing starvation .

 

[Levelsman]

Perhaps the OP should have included her CV!!​

I cannot understand what any of this means anyway.

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Biography​

Dr Renuka Thakore, PhD, MSc, BSc (Hons) PIEMA AFHEA, Founder of Global Sustainable Futures: Progress through Partnership Network, University College of Estate Management, UK, provides leadership to a global network, administering multidisciplinary activities and research partnerships development platform. Her research interests include sustainability and sustainable development and transformations. Her passion is to investigate the challenges of natural and societal systems and identify emerging trends that are competent in offering sustainable solutions. She contributes to this knowledge by revealing the strategic reality of real-world problems researched through transdisciplinarity and systems thinking. She is trying to widen the knowledge base from concepts to the real world, bringing together technologies, future scenarios, different elements of the built environment, societal systems evaluated through the multi-dimensional integrated framing of sustainable development.

I'm so glad my Biography just says 'Simple peasant farmer'!

 

[4course]

My carbon footprint is what it is! In a wet year when I need to use more fuel to dry my grain it will go up and in a dry year it will go down..
It makes bugger all difference if you put a figure on it!

not necessarily as in a wet year your crops will produce more biomass thus capturing more carbon either above,as leaves or below ground as roots mindst your final analysis is correct in that it makes bugger all difference ,such is the world of measuring this carbon foot print bal---s