The UK Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has awarded £3.3 million in funding to a major on-farm trial and research project that seeks to eliminate the dependence of UK grassland farming on applied nitrogen fertilisers, with carbon footprints on the technology to be evaluated by Agrecalc.
We have informed our readers recently that, during the re-development of our Soil Carbon Module for Agrecalc Cloud, we have encountered inconsistencies that may have affected a limited number of users.
Although we initially planned to move to a traffic light-based system, customer feedback indicated a preference for numerical values, which will be available again in the spring 2024 upgrade.
A grazing event has put some meat on the bones of ABP’s sustainability programme PRISM 2030, by bringing together beef and lamb farmers with technical experts and the Agrecalc team on a suckler beef farm in Cheshire.
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 change farmers’ behaviour by empowering them with the results of measuring and benchmarking the GHG emissions of seven farms, by employing state-of-the-art forensic methods.
This allows them to simultaneously reduce emissions and build carbon stocks, showing how farmers can distinguish themselves as custodians of the nation’s carbon in the future.
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A new initiative to deliver accreditation to futureproof agricultural, food supply chain and land-based businesses on the journey to net zero has been launched by Agrecalc’s partner, SAC Consulting, and an environmental charity.
A Scottish investment programme has seen the highest-ever number of university spin-outs in 2022/23, facilitating the creation of homegrown high-value jobs and the development of new products and services for domestic and international markets.
Agrecalc is among the six enterprises that show significant potential to further commercialise innovative ideas and projects.
Using Agrecalc for a whole farm carbon baselining, this three-year programme will focus on reducing the carbon emissions from growing barley and wheat for Scotch whisky, including Johnnie Walker, Singleton and Talisker.
A science-based approach will be taken, working closely with Agricarbon, James Hutton Limited, Scottish Agronomy and SAC Consulting.
The programme will look to support a reduction in Scope 3 carbon-emissions and build long-term resilience into Diageo’s supply chain.
During the redevelopment of the Soil Carbon Module for our new platform we have identified inconsistencies in results within some farm types and regions.
Those inconsistencies have raised significant questions, namely in the interpretation of results.