How Do You Work Out Carbon Footprint For Your Farm?

[organic]

I like to work out the carbon footprint, or whatever the correct term is, for our farm.

Anyone know how you do this?

 

[FARMERJERRY]

I like to work out the carbon footprint, or whatever the correct term is, for our farm.

Anyone know how you do this?

carbon cutting tool kit do an on-line form which calculates it for you , based on standard figures from your inputs https://www.farmcarbontoolkit.org.uk/carbon-calculator

 

[organic]

Thanks.

 

[Muddyroads]

I asked the same question in Agricultural Matters this afternoon!

 

[topground]

More useful information on agricultural inputs so that the Supermarket robber barons can further screw prices down.

 

[foxbox]

There's also this which is being used by Beeswax to calculate their carbon footprint.

Cool Farm Tool

There's an interesting article in CPM magazine about it here

 

[Poorbuthappy]

More useful information on agricultural inputs so that the Supermarket robber barons can further screw prices down.

Actually I think it's a useful if not essential tool to fight back against the "go vegan to save the planet" nonsense.

 

[Nithsdale]

Actually I think it's a useful if not essential tool to fight back against the "go vegan to save the planet" nonsense.

The fact vegans substitute everything natural with something from man made synthetics - which all rely heavily on the Petro-chemical industries there shouldn't be any need to show how 'green' our industry is - the argument should be how damaging their ideology is.
Veganism is literally sucking the life out of the very planet they claim to want to save.

It's sad how lost and out of touch people seem to be.

 

[d-wales]

I used one of those carbon websites a while back and it showed that I capture ..........16,000 tones of carbon a year

Is that a lot/normal or................. have I filled in the forms incorrectly?

 

[Still Farming]

So many way to interpret possibly???

 

[Kiwi Pete]

If you're more than casually interested, get a uni or college to do it.
We've got two ^^^ and TBH the online calculators are very rough by comparison to a team of bright minds who actually investigate each of the inputs, supply chain efficiencies in more detail.
The big elephant in most calculators is how they deal with methane "output" because if you're realistic, you can write off most of this technical "emission" as discussed elsewhere, if I don't do this then about 80% of our total emissions are methane (as C02e).
Little details like methane bring an awfully large amount of inaccuracy, especially while forestry is still the golden boy....

 

[sjt01]

One very important factor in carbon footprinting is boundaries. It's OK to say that the carbon footprint of the cow cake you bought is X, but then what about the footprint of building the feed mill, transporting the diesel that fuelled the haulage to the farm and so on. What is the carbon footprint of your diet, as your energy is running the farm? I know a lot of these are insignificant on their own, but they all add up and might be the main differences between similar farms.

 

[farmerm]

who has the better carbon footprint, the farm with the lowest carbon footprint per ha of overall land or just the cropped/grazed area or per kg of dry matter sold, or per kg of protein or per kg of carbohydrate or.... what is a meaningful metric? Where does it lead.. do we pitch farmers against farmers... we already have divisions between organic and none organic producers, between small farms and corporate producers do we need to create further divisions between low and high carbon footprint operations?