Reducing your Carbon Footprint
There are obviously two approaches to reducing the total carbon foot print for your farm
- Reduce the amount of carbon equivalent gases omitted
- Sequestrate carbon on/into your farm
After calculating your carbon foot print you will know which aspects of your business are producing the most carbon dioxide equivalent gases and may immediately think of new technology or systems of work which can reduce your foot print.
Below we explains our strategy for providing mitigation advice but you may wish to go directly to search by category - just click through to the page which intersts you most (please note this is an active website so will be regularly updated - if you know of a product or advice to farmers please get in touch)
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Crop residue Other soil sources Forestry
In order to reduce costs to you we offer three streams of mitigation advice
- On the web we will offer general advice often linking to other sites which specialise in a particular mitigation option
- Hopefully in time a body of practical mitigation options supplied by farmers who have reduced their carbon foot print will develop through the discussion forum on this site, and then you can decide if their solutions are relevant to your farming business.
- We will also provide special advisers who can visit you and discuss specific options for your farm i.e. individual consultancy.
Reducing carbon equivalent emissions is an area of active scientific research – we will endeavour to post the most up to date and relevant publications on this web site. By blending scientific knowledge with practical farming common sense we believe you are the best person to decide for your farm business what measures you can take to reduce your carbon foot print – there are no easy answers but some measures will be more palatable than others.
We have scanned many hundreds of web sites to bring you the most practical and useful advice. If you know of a web site offering good practical advice why not post your knowledge on the web site discussion forum and help other farmers or contact us directly.
We have split the mitigation advice into several categories and these will grow as more specialised knowledge becomes available.