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<blockquote data-quote="Agriland RSS" data-source="post: 7835216" data-attributes="member: 105608"><p>Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland</p><p></p><p>Milk producers in Northern Ireland are already well down the road of responding to the challenge of climate change, according to Dairy UK’s Dr. Mike Johnston. He was speaking at a College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (<a href="https://www.agriland.co.uk/farming-news/cafre-highlights-the-value-of-carbon-calculators/" target="_blank">CAFRE</a>)-hosted webinar this week that explored the issue of securing the future sustainability of the dairy sector.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>“Farmers have succeeded in reducing the<a href="https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/cafre-highlights-the-value-of-carbon-calculators/" target="_blank"> carbon</a> intensity of the milk they produce by one third over the past two decades,” he said.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>“And investment with the industry continues, all geared towards driving up efficiency levels and lowering the carbon footprint of individual farming businesses.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In mapping out the journey required for the milk sector to reduce its carbon footprint dramatically over the next 30 years, he said that Northern Ireland’s politicians must put in place climate-change legislation which meets this need without severely clamping the potential of the agri sectors to produce food.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>According to the Dairy UK representative, customers of the milk-processing sector are also taking a very real interest in climate change and the need to produce food sustainably.</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>He commented:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Johnston also referenced the steps being taken in other countries to align their dairy sectors with very strong, climate change-focussed development strategies, adding:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>“But the dairy sector cannot do all of this own its own. We need to partner up strongly with government and research.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Johnston pointed out that the farming industry is used to change.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>He said:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>“These developments were driven by improvements in technology, the impact of research plus the need to improve efficiency and productivity.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>“Terms such as carbon sequestration, carbon calculators and biogenic emissions are now used in common parlance.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>“The era of sustainable farming is with us. But this is not a principle that milk producers should be afraid of, rather, they should embrace it,” he told the<a href="https://www.cafre.ac.uk/" target="_blank"> CAFRE</a> event.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The post <a href="https://www.agriland.co.uk/farming-news/ni-farmers-have-cut-carbon-intensity-of-milk-by-one-third-cafre-webinar/" target="_blank">NI farmers have cut carbon intensity of milk by one third – CAFRE webinar</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.agriland.co.uk" target="_blank">Agriland.co.uk</a>.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.agriland.co.uk/farming-news/ni-farmers-have-cut-carbon-intensity-of-milk-by-one-third-cafre-webinar/" target="_blank">Continue reading on the Agriland Website...</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Agriland RSS, post: 7835216, member: 105608"] Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland Milk producers in Northern Ireland are already well down the road of responding to the challenge of climate change, according to Dairy UK’s Dr. Mike Johnston. He was speaking at a College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise ([URL='https://www.agriland.co.uk/farming-news/cafre-highlights-the-value-of-carbon-calculators/']CAFRE[/URL])-hosted webinar this week that explored the issue of securing the future sustainability of the dairy sector. “Farmers have succeeded in reducing the[URL='https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/cafre-highlights-the-value-of-carbon-calculators/'] carbon[/URL] intensity of the milk they produce by one third over the past two decades,” he said. “And investment with the industry continues, all geared towards driving up efficiency levels and lowering the carbon footprint of individual farming businesses. In mapping out the journey required for the milk sector to reduce its carbon footprint dramatically over the next 30 years, he said that Northern Ireland’s politicians must put in place climate-change legislation which meets this need without severely clamping the potential of the agri sectors to produce food. [B]According to the Dairy UK representative, customers of the milk-processing sector are also taking a very real interest in climate change and the need to produce food sustainably.[/B] He commented: Johnston also referenced the steps being taken in other countries to align their dairy sectors with very strong, climate change-focussed development strategies, adding: “But the dairy sector cannot do all of this own its own. We need to partner up strongly with government and research. Johnston pointed out that the farming industry is used to change. He said: “These developments were driven by improvements in technology, the impact of research plus the need to improve efficiency and productivity. “Terms such as carbon sequestration, carbon calculators and biogenic emissions are now used in common parlance. “The era of sustainable farming is with us. But this is not a principle that milk producers should be afraid of, rather, they should embrace it,” he told the[URL='https://www.cafre.ac.uk/'] CAFRE[/URL] event. The post [URL='https://www.agriland.co.uk/farming-news/ni-farmers-have-cut-carbon-intensity-of-milk-by-one-third-cafre-webinar/']NI farmers have cut carbon intensity of milk by one third – CAFRE webinar[/URL] appeared first on [URL='https://www.agriland.co.uk']Agriland.co.uk[/URL]. [url="https://www.agriland.co.uk/farming-news/ni-farmers-have-cut-carbon-intensity-of-milk-by-one-third-cafre-webinar/"]Continue reading on the Agriland Website...[/url] [/QUOTE]
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