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The carbon and efficiency tool
that gives you clarity and confidence in reducing emissions.

Agrecalc is the market-leading farm carbon calculator – a software solution that makes farm greenhouse gas emissions visible, helping actors across the food supply chain take confident and cost-effective steps towards a net-zero future. By benchmarking and monitoring farm GHG emissions, we are supporting agriculture’s transition to a low-carbon future. This aims to foster global agricultural sustainability by decreasing carbon footprint and increasing production efficiency.

A comprehensive carbon solution

Agrecalc produces precise carbon footprint reports for all farm enterprises by:

  • identifying the main sources of carbon emissions
  • measuring emissions
  • monitoring improvements
  • benchmarking key performance indicators and relevant comparators

The Agrecalc farm carbon calculator also allows users to simulate scenarios to understand the impact of potential changes and monitor progress.

With Group Access Portals it enables easy performance comparison across different systems, identifying practical and green management actions to boost productivity.

Recognising international standards

Our core model is based on greenhouse gas reporting guidelines published by the IPCC for national inventories. The Agrecalc farm carbon calculator also incorporates more specific national figures from the UK National Greenhouse Gas Inventory.

Our methods are certified by PAS 2050:2011, a UK standard for the robust quantification of product carbon footprints. 

Emissions (of all GHGs) are typically displayed in terms of CO2 equivalent (CO2e) as an emissions intensity (Co2e / unit of output), commonly known as carbon footprint.

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Rooted in science and experience

Since inception in 2007, Agrecalc has produced more than 20,000 carbon reports for 9,000+ farm enterprises, and collaborated with more than 180 agricultural consultants. Our farm carbon calculator is underpinned by the latest published scientific research by SRUC researchers and advisors.

Agrecalc has also been identified in “Preparing for Sustainable Farming”, Track One of the Scottish Government’s National Testing Programme* as the carbon footprint calculator with recommendations supplied as part of the audit.

In addition, Agrecalc is recognised in other emerging government programmes, like DEFRA’s Future Farm Resilience (FFR) in England, and with AHDB’s Farm Excellence Platform (FEP) across the UK.

*Scottish Government, ‘Preparing for Sustainable Farming – Producer Guidance’, page 8

Who we work with


Food industry

Your environmentally-conscious consumers are increasingly demanding that you procure and produce low-carbon, high quality food. And to keep your customer promise, you need a just-in-time farm carbon calculator for measuring carbon emissions.
Agrecalc offers a solution to both your immediate compliance challenges, as well as supports the need for longer-term sustainability strategies within the food supply chain.
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Farm businesses

You need a seamless handover between yourself and other key players in the supply chain to achieve market advantage and improve economic gain. You can start for free with a non-commercial use of our solution.
Additional capabilities with our farm carbon calculator include benchmarking against industry standards, mitigation measures and what-if scenario planning, all of which help farmers with compliance too.
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Corporate farms

You want to benchmark and understand which are the most ethically-sourced food supplies across your supply chain. All the produce that your farms supply is a reflection on your business and your reputation. Therefore it's pivotal you understand which of your farms' produce meets the highest standards of low-carbon production.
The Agrecalc farm carbon calculator can revolutionise environmental performance in your supply chain, so you can achieve exactly that.
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Agricultural consultants

You want to provide the best service to your clients and identify the areas across the food supply chain that need improvement. By using Agrecalc farm carbon calculator you can validate findings and recommend mitigation measures to help plug efficiency gaps.
This will help ensure fair farmgate prices for your clients, and provide the knowledge and expertise to help them lower their carbon footprint, leading to high customer satisfaction and retention levels.
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Policy makers

You need to be compliant with international guidelines and meet targets set by the international community. You can be confident that the key players across the agricultural supply chain using Agrecalc farm carbon calculator will help you accurately understand the country's food production's carbon footprint, identify measures to improve performance, ensure food security and underpin research and policy to help shape supply chain standards.
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Science and research

You play an instrumental role in delivering expertise to inform policy makers, academia and research, as well as adding value to projects and identifying measures to further recommend practices leading to a sustainable future for all.
By using the Agrecalc farm carbon calculator, you can accurately perform scenario testing and apply country-specific coefficients. This leads to having access to precise and defensible figures to prove the validity of your research.
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Financial institutions

You need to explore green economy opportunities and find new, innovative ways to support transition to low-carbon ways of doing business. Agrecalc can offer benchmarking and data integrations to support sound financial decisions.
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Tech and data providers

You are keen to automate and integrate cross-technology systems that can increase productivity, drive change and champion the environment. Agrecalc can help you with seamless data migration for CSR level reporting, as well as granular production unit reporting via APIs.
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Why choose our farm carbon calculator?

Science and social responsibility

Agrecalc is one of a kind precise software that offers both breadth and depth of on-farm and through-the-supply-chain calculations of carbon footprint. Using Agrecalc gives you much more than a tick-box exercise of a carbon audit – it is a resource efficiency calculator, and as such is able to pinpoint where the improvements can be made, paving the way towards a sustainable future, without having an impact on food security.
Innovation lies at the core of Agrecalc ethos; we are a tech company that serves agriculture and the world's food supply chain, enabling it to reduce its carbon footprint.

Big picture and granular view

Agrecalc is one of the tools on the market that calculate whole farm emissions. It covers the full range of agricultural systems and food sectors and combines these in whole farm review.
Agrecalc is a comprehensive instrument that offers both breadth and depth of on-farm data, enabling users to identify hotspots and management practices that can deliver the biggest emission reductions.
The team behind Agrecalc are always on hand to offer expert support and advice. Whether you're just starting out on your carbon reduction journey, or you're looking for ways to further improve efficiency, Agrecalc is an invaluable resource.

Compliance and bottom-line benefits

Agrecalc aligns with LCA guidelines defined by ISO 14044 and PAS 2050 standards as well as IPCC guidelines for greenhouse gas reporting for all emissions to the farm-gate. With modules that count hedges and woodland, Agrecalc can help validate your environmental credentials. This is especially significant when it comes to applying for subsidies and grants, and participating in various agricultural schemes and projects.
In addition to improving technical efficiency, profitability and cost-saving opportunities, Agrecalc can help support transition to low-carbon agriculture, essential to tackling climate change and protecting the environment.

What we achieved for our clients

AgriSearch and Beacon Farm Network

AgriSearch set out to benchmark carbon sequestration on farm, and encourage the development of innovative, resilient and sustainable farming systems.
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Carbon Neutral Beef Production

A farming business in Scotland used Agrecalc to identify and lower emissions from 51 kg / CO2e per kg of output, to 27 kg / CO2e per kg of output.

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Grosvenor Farms Limited

Find out how Agrecalc produced informative and easily understood reports, and helped establish clear objectives for continuous improvement.

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Rapid Evidence Assessment with SRUC

Agrecalc helped model potential impacts of introducing variables such as increased piglet mortality, providing extra straw for enrichment and quicker indoor finishing.
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What our clients say about us

“Agrecalc has supported us right from the beginning and has given us a better, more rounded understanding of our whole farming operation and what impact a decision could have on our carbon budget. We also like the tool because it’s backed up by science, which is important if we were ever challenged.”
David CravenGrosvenor Estate Dairy and Resource Manager
David Craven
“Being able to drill down into figures that are coming from a carbon audit with Agrecalc, like using fertiliser inefficiently, has got us into researching different and more effective fertilisers. We’ve reduced nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions by 37%, and improved our biodiversity. Overall, we’re producing relatively carbon efficient beef – per kilo of output, our emissions are down from 51kg of CO2 to 27kg.”
Jock GibsonEdinvale Farm owner
Jock Gibson
"We were nervous about undertaking the carbon audit, but the change to our business has been quite substantial. A change which should benefit us well into the future, making our farm more profitable and sustainable – how could you argue with that?”
Eddie OrrBW & J Orr, Commercial beef and sheep farm, South Lanarkshire
Eddie Orr
“The two carbon audits allowed us to monitor our performance and see if what we were doing was working. The improvements in the carbon audits were mirrored by our financial performance, so we have found that carbon efficiency is quite closely linked to financial performance.”
Mitchell CraigScottish Government Beef Efficiency Scheme (BES) participant
Mitchell Craig
"The calculations were made using SAC Consulting’s resource efficiency calculator, Agrecalc. [...] There remains a clear correlation between the best financial returns, the best technical efficiency and the lowest greenhouse gas emissions per unit of output. In the same way that this report summarises the opportunity that exists for the industry to improve financial margins, it also shows the scope to reduce emissions at the same time."
Cattle & Sheep Enterprise Profitability in Scotland ReportQMS
Cattle & Sheep Enterprise Profitability in Scotland Report
"The team at SAC Consulting have been really accommodating to tailor the support to our exact needs and create even more value within our emissions calculations with their expertise. For example, we are using the data and advice from Agrecalc to create a GHG emissions reduction roadmap which includes renewable energy, efficient fertiliser use, water management, efficient chilling, and exploring new technologies like electric and hydrogen vehicles. Our customers expect us to maintain a clear focus on emissions reduction and with the baselines we now have, we can clearly show where our emissions are coming from and how we’re taking steps to reduce them. We are delighted to be making such great progress towards our target of reaching 50% reduction in UK carbon emissions by 2030.”
Catherine RussellAngus Soft Fruits
Catherine Russell
“Our team had looked at a number of farm carbon calculators, but Agrecalc was the most comprehensive and straightforward to use to get the most useful calculation across enterprises.”
Stevie GrayScottish Agronomy
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"[...]The level of detail and comprehensive way Agrecalc handles livestock appears to produce meaningful results that can focus farmers for real change. Agrecalc’s ability to use performance metrics that translate into productivity and impact the carbon footprint make it well suited to UK livestock farms."
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November 24, 2023

In this exclusive interview, Professor John Gilliland, OBE, speaks with Agrecalc on the ARCZero project in Northern Ireland, its journey from inception to the end of Phase one, and the lessons learned along the way.
This pioneering initiative set out to measure and benchmark carbon footprint of seven farms, and to employ state-of-the-art forensic methods available to prove how farmers can not only lower their carbon footprint, but to own their carbon story and distinguish themselves as custodians of the nation’s carbon.

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