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.
Agrecalc’s agricultural scientist Kaia Waxenberg has been shortlisted for prestigious Converge programme.
Agrecalc identified as the only carbon calculator with consultant capacity to offer mitigation recommendation.
It’s no news that recent months have seen fertiliser prices skyrocketing to wholly unprecedented levels, propelling a need to reduce fertiliser dependency in both the near and slightly longer term.