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Where does a predominantly grassland farm fit in with carbon credits
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<blockquote data-quote="neilo" data-source="post: 7651388" data-attributes="member: 348"><p>I suspect it would depend on how that grassland is managed. If it runs cattle indoors on zero grazed, high input Westerwolds then it will have a far higher carbon footprint than the same farm with reasonable output from a rotational grazing system, outwintering on cell grazed grass or forage crops, and with no bought in concentrates.</p><p></p><p>Every farming system will be different.</p><p></p><p>Should the farmer, and his family’s, lifestyle be taken into account of too? If they’re miserable buggers that never go anywhere and live on homegrown veg & meat, then their carbon footprint will be many times lower than a family that flies off on skiing holidays and races cars for a hobby….just as a random example.<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😂" title="Face with tears of joy :joy:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f602.png" data-shortname=":joy:" /> I guess somewhere in the middle, will be a miserable bugger that doesn’t fly off on holiday, but keeps a fleet of Smokey old Fordsons to ride round in? [USER=6448]@7610 super q[/USER] [USER=6]@Clive[/USER]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="neilo, post: 7651388, member: 348"] I suspect it would depend on how that grassland is managed. If it runs cattle indoors on zero grazed, high input Westerwolds then it will have a far higher carbon footprint than the same farm with reasonable output from a rotational grazing system, outwintering on cell grazed grass or forage crops, and with no bought in concentrates. Every farming system will be different. Should the farmer, and his family’s, lifestyle be taken into account of too? If they’re miserable buggers that never go anywhere and live on homegrown veg & meat, then their carbon footprint will be many times lower than a family that flies off on skiing holidays and races cars for a hobby….just as a random example.😂 I guess somewhere in the middle, will be a miserable bugger that doesn’t fly off on holiday, but keeps a fleet of Smokey old Fordsons to ride round in? [USER=6448]@7610 super q[/USER] [USER=6]@Clive[/USER] [/QUOTE]
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