In its drive to reach net zero, top 15 UK food company Moy Park has unveiled a pioneering five-year partnership with Agrecalc that will monitor and track greenhouse gas emissions in real time at individual farm level, across its entire farming base.
In today’s uncertain environment, which is coupled with ambitious legislative net zero targets (in Scotland by 2045), the agri-food sector is facing increasing demands to measure and monitor progress against carbon equivalent (CO2e) reduction targets.
Agrecalc’s partner, The Andersons Centre, is set to support ABP Food Group, one of Europe’s leading food processors, in delivering a unique sustainability programme which will endorse the processor’s beef and lamb suppliers. The carbon calculating software will provide scientific computations needed for carbon footprint assessment.
Scottish Government is currently developing a new programme of policies and payment schemes to replace the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
Agrecalc continues to support the delivery of these programmes, having delivered previous Government farm carbon assessment services such as those through the Farm Advisory Service (FAS) and the Beef Efficiency Scheme (BES).
Soil sampling depth matters when it comes to Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) – as Agrecalc Head of Science, Rachael Ramsey explores.
Edinvale’s farm main enterprise is beef: a herd of Highland and Shorthorn cattle, with a bit of the Aberdeen Angus stock, totalling about 270 head, including this year’s crop of calves.
Kaia Waxenberg, Research Associate at SRUC and the member of the Agrecalc team, has won ‘Best Pitch’ in the Net Zero Category at prestigious Converge Challenge.
The farming press is full of news and views on the drive for agriculture to achieve net-zero status by 2040. But what actually IS a carbon audit?
While clover is not the silver bullet to all our problems in the agricultural sector, it certainly has the potential to play a central role in making the farm system more efficient, productive, sustainable, and profitable. This is particularly true for grass-based livestock systems.