What does this farmer erected banner “Carbon Neutral by 2040” mean?

[Pilatus]

Today I have just noticed a local farmer has erected the thread banner by the side of a busy dual carriageway.
In my ignorance what does it mean and is it achieve able???

 

[ridger]

He might be thinking that he will have bitten the dust by then and be feeding the soil

 

[Jackov Altraids]

It is meaningless.
What it probably indicates is that it will be 2040 before people will realise that ELMS,tree planting, rewilding and carbon offsetting has been utter horshite and that we[UK Ag.] were carbon neutral back in 2020 before they started to make things worse.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Yeah, if you don't base your business around feeding people - who pollute and consume vast amounts of resource

otherwise, it depends whereabouts you start and stop the clock

 

[Dry Rot]

By then they may have realised it's people who cause pollution and started to do something about curbing the population explosion.

 

[Campbell]

Mmmmm. Cotswold Framer, can't be him...

 

[delilah]

Did he have a 'red tractor' banner up 20 years ago ? That one went well too.
All carbon neutral is, is a stick to be beaten with whilst the rest of the food chain wets themselves laughing at our acquiescence.

 

[Kidds]

Must be a campaign/advertising thing because I have seen one on a farm near here. Didn't make any sense to me and I doubt it means anything to anybody else that sees it.

 

[An Gof]

Today I have just noticed a local farmer has erected the thread banner by the side of a busy dual carriageway.
In my ignorance what does it mean and is it achieve able???

Is it an NFU banner

 

[Doing it for the kids]

It’s @MrNoo i bet now his solar farm build has started

carbon neutral is a global problem, until everyone pulls together all we are doing is shipping ours to other places, it’s daft

 

[Tarw Coch]

Is it an NFU banner

Quite possibly, they have form on speaking for the entire industry without even consulting those that they do represent

 

[Pilatus]

Is it an NFU banner

AHDB printed one the end of it, next time I drive past I will see if NFU on the other end.

 

[delilah]

AHDB printed one the end of it, next time I drive past I will see if NFU on the other end.

It will have The Woodland Trust printed at the other end of it.

https://ahdb.org.uk/news/trade-and-policy/horizon-blog-net-zero

 

[deleted user 837354]

Today I have just noticed a local farmer has erected the thread banner by the side of a busy dual carriageway.
In my ignorance what does it mean and is it achieve able???

It means the whole farm will have a nuclear powerplant built on it by 2040.

 

[MrNoo]

It’s @MrNoo i bet now his solar farm build has started

Not I, I'm afraid, nothing Carbon Neutral re solar here at the moment, 4x 360's running, a dozer and numerous rollers/dumptrucks etc They've probably burnt more diesel than I use in a whole year so far!!

Yet all you hear is about so and so moaning they cant fly off on holiday, cannot see air travel ever being Carbon neutral no matter how they dress it up.

I suspect if RT and the like keep bringing yet more and rules and regs there will come a time when some of the smaller owned farms will just mothball them, wild flowers etc and give up growing food. Chatting to a chap who has 300 odd acres, said it's his last year growing crops, all being put into some scheme, reckoned he'll be getting £70k/year. Bit of a no brainer (as long as he gets paid!)

 

[betweenthelines]

in answer to the question-f uck all

I can say I don't consume any water because I don't drink bottled or tap water, but virtually everything I eat and drink contains water or water is used to make it.

Likewise, I could say I'm carbon neutral if I drive an electric car. But how is the car made, how is the road it travels on built, etc. etc.

 

[Formatted]

Are you all annoyed by this because you don't think the industry will be carbon neutral or you don't think a farmer should be advertising they'll be carbon neutral? This is an NFU campaign

 

[Ffermer Bach]

Not I, I'm afraid, nothing Carbon Neutral re solar here at the moment, 4x 360's running, a dozer and numerous rollers/dumptrucks etc They've probably burnt more diesel than I use in a whole year so far!!

Yet all you hear is about so and so moaning they cant fly off on holiday, cannot see air travel ever being Carbon neutral no matter how they dress it up.

I suspect if RT and the like keep bringing yet more and rules and regs there will come a time when some of the smaller owned farms will just mothball them, wild flowers etc and give up growing food. Chatting to a chap who has 300 odd acres, said it's his last year growing crops, all being put into some scheme, reckoned he'll be getting £70k/year. Bit of a no brainer (as long as he gets paid!)

Maybe everyone should lock the gates, throw away the key, grow nothing and put a big sign up, Carbon Neutral, after all, we all know all food comes from Tesco so nothing to worry about!

 

[Tarw Coch]

Are you all annoyed by this because you don't think the industry will be carbon neutral or you don't think a farmer should be advertising they'll be carbon neutral? This is an NFU campaign

Is this about an individual farmer going carbon neutral by 2040?
Is it about all NFU members going carbon neutral by 2040?
Is it about all farmers being carbon neutral by 2040?

 

[MrNoo]

Are you all annoyed by this because you don't think the industry will be carbon neutral or you don't think a farmer should be advertising they'll be carbon neutral? This is an NFU campaign

The Non Farmers Union, what a surprise, an utter shower of shite, still I’m sure it’ll all be RT run and assured so will be fine!