- Location
- Exeter, Devon
Please tell me you’re not serious.But again - methane trips you up....
Please tell me you’re not serious.But again - methane trips you up....
Please tell me you’re not serious.
Trivial compared to the amount of carbon captured. Still well negative thanks.
If offsetting is good enough for 'THEM' using farmland, it's got to be good enough for us that own and use the land. No more need be planned for.
Except that the UK government and the opposition are dead set on actually demonising and killing off big sectors of UK agriculture regardless. It will be death by a thousand cuts, aided and abetted by the NFU by the look of it. What's their game? Are they just not up to the job or are they too thick to see where this is leading for no good reason? Perhaps they would like to explain to their members their quiet acceptance of the government's stance and policies without question as to the validity of the case?
If we can’t do it, no other industry has a cat in hells chance, and that includes forestry in this country.In your eyes yes. And mine too probably.
But will it allow you declare you are producing at net zero? Remember someone is in charge of deciding what it is.
That is nothing compared to the hundreds of thousands of tons belched out by the transport, steel, concrete industries and leaks from factories and the oil and gas industries, both current and old abandoned works. Then there’s rubbish dumps.So theoretically can I say that I've got 10 miles of hedgerow and that's my carbon offset for my oil usage? And then I sleep soundly?
The one that I can't see a way around is nitrous oxides from N
The 15% moisture allowed should go back up to 16%Minimal use of tractors, fert and sprays. Not using the grain drier among other things, however in the REAL world it all depends on the season
Offsetting should be banned.That is nothing compared to the hundreds of thousands of tons belched out by the transport, steel, concrete industries and leaks from factories and the oil and gas industries, both current and old abandoned works. Then there’s rubbish dumps.
Agriculture is the only industry that can offset its own emissions from its own resources. The mass purchase of every available acre of land by investment funds on behalf of gross emitters has already begun. Potential sellers of land should be aware that their land might be worth ten times or more what these investors are cuuently offering as demand, fuelled by legislation led panic, forces emitters to reduce what they can and offset the rest.
Why? I know it’s a load of cobblers but we as farmers should be in the prime position to exploit it.Offsetting should be banned.
Why?But again - methane trips you up....
It's not too simplistic at all, it's absolutely whacked the nail on the head. This would be precisely the best use for this ridiculous greenwash money. And these polluters shouldn't be applauded for it, their only reward should be to be allowed to continue trading.Instead of buying land here to plant trees on, why don’t the big companies pay Brazil not to chop the rain forests down as the trees are already there.
( this may be too simplistic)
How?
Don't get me wrong I'm all for reducing carbon emissions and nitrous oxides where we can but NET ZERO. Actual net zero??
I'm already doing a lot of that....but I'm never going to be 'net zero', as long as I can phone up for some red diesel to be tankered in, pop down to the filling station with the defender etc etc.Surely it is easy to get to net zero with livestock.
All permanent grass.
Only eat grass or hay, or silage as long as it isn't wrapped.
Never house anything.
Use stored water or rivers.
No fertilizer and only use clover for nitrogen.
Sell all produce to local outlets and slaughter at the local abattoir just up the road.
Drive all livestock along the roads again.
Cattle hides used for clothing or furnishings.
Sheep skins for clothing and Ugg boots.
Wool for warm jumpers.
Have a good sized veg garden with fruit bushes and trees.
Have enough vines to make decent wines.
Barley and hops for beer.
Use coppiced timber for fencing and firewood.
Maybe have an electric bicycle to go to Town charged from solar panels.
No problem to get to net zero.
I can see a time in the next ten years or so that agriculture has removed it’s reliance of fossil fuels (using green hydrogen and green electricity for energy inputs). That then leaves other greenhouse gas emissions, but they are parts of natural cycles. As I understand it, methane about 12 years and nitrous oxide just over 100 years. How long does a cycle have to be before it turns from ‘just part of the natural cycle’ in to ‘a harmful greenhouse gas emission’?But again - methane trips you up....