Carbon footprinting your beef enterprise

Improve herd productivity through data-driven adjustments, leading to healthier animals and higher yields:

  • Streamline compliance with environmental regulations, ensuring readiness for evolving industry standards, and government requirements
  • Improve soil health by aligning grazing and nutrient management with sustainable practices
  • Build consumer trust by showcasing verified carbon reductions, helping to differentiate products in the marketplace
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When it comes to measuring and managing the carbon footprint of beef enterprises, Agrecalc stands as the premier choice for UK farmers. Rooted in the unique conditions of Scotland’s agricultural landscape, Agrecalc has built extensive experience in tracking and reducing emissions from beef production, making it especially adept at addressing the needs of this sector.

Agrecalc champions whole-farm approach, allowing beef farmers to evaluate their entire operation’s carbon impact. Agrecalc allows for detailed modeling of the complex interconnections between different parts of your business. This whole-farm method takes into account emissions across all parts of the farm business, providing a comprehensive perspective on the environmental impacts of beef production.

With Agrecalc, calculations for emissions from livestock, feed, manure management, and all other areas of farm operations are interwoven. This approach enables beef farmers to see how emissions across various aspects of their business contribute to the farm’s total carbon footprint and offers targeted strategies for achieving significant, measurable reductions.

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Utilise the new Agrecalc Cloud features to your benefit

Agrecalc Cloud now has the ability to manage multiple herds, enabling a more precise enterprise calculations and comparison between herds. The distinction between transferred manures and imported manures is now clear, solving a challenge our users encountered with the previous version. 

We have also introduced an elective metric of GWP*, alongside the IPCC-approved metric of GWP100, at the request of our users who are keen to explore the merits of this metric and see for themselves what impact it has.

Reduce emissions without sacrificing quality or scale

Minimise overgrazing and ensure sufficient forage for each animal to align with available resources.

Mitigations like these improve overall herd health, reducing stress on animals and lowering the incidence of disease. Healthy animals often have better reproductive outcomes, which supports a more productive, sustainable herd in the long term, and lowers emissions.

Improve herd productivity with informed decisions

Analyse comprehensive data on herd management, grazing patterns, and feed efficiency, revealing actionable insights that lead to healthier animals and increased yield.

For instance, optimising feed quality and quantity can improve weight gain rates, leading to faster finishing times, a higher-quality end product, and lower emissions.

Clear the path towards government schemes and grants

With the increased conditionality tied to government subsidies, a carbon assessment can help you speed up and make the process easier and more streamlined. 

Mitigate the uncertainties currently surrounding the carbon space. Assessing your baseline emissions gives your business clarity and allows you to make smarter decisions regardless of the policy or market landscape in the future.

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Foster a strong relationship with your buyer

By sourcing from farms using Agrecalc, processors and retailers gain confidence that their suppliers are actively managing their carbon footprint. This transparency across the supply chain simplifies audits, and reporting, allowing businesses to verify that their products comply with environmental regulations. In turn, this can reduce administrative burdens, minimise regulatory risk, and position the businesses as proactive leaders in sustainable sourcing.

Achieve premiums for your product

With the discussions of sustainability-oriented product-labels in the future, you can communicate your sustainability achievements in potential certification schemes, in marketing materials, and through farm-to-table programs that offer validated carbon reductions.

This verified data both reassures consumers and sets products apart in a competitive market where environmentally conscious choices are valued. A proven sustainability story strengthens the farm’s reputation and appeals to buyers willing to pay a premium for responsibly produced food.

Long-term, it positions the business as a leader in sustainable practices.

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A story from a beef farmer like you

Reaching carbon neutral beef production at Edinvale Farm

Using Agrecalc for their carbon audits year after year, the business has achieved considerable savings in resource use and also lowered its carbon footprint by a third. Although there’s a way to go to achieve overall carbon neutrality, the figures from the first three years show an overall reduction from 51 kg of CO2e per kilo of output down to 27 kg of CO2e per kilo of output.
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As a beef farm business owner, you collaborate with:

Agricultural Consultant

• Recommend actions based on data
• Guide your client towards sustainability
• Provide audit trail to help with finances
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Food industry - procurement

• Work with farms committed to sustainability
• Compare data and KPIs
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Sustainability manager

• Manage thousands of farms
• Benchmark your performers
• Report on sustainability progress
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