Ploughing - by Gary Naylor

Farmers Weekly article by Mike Abram exploring four carbon calculators

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Strategies to improve the economic situation on a farm will very often result in also reducing your carbon footprint, which can make a carbon audit a useful benchmarking exercise for farmers.

Farms with a low carbon footprint are often the most efficient and profitable, subject to land use and type.

Four tools are compared along with a range of others which are considered:

  • The Cool Farm Tool
  • Farm Carbon Calculator
  • Agrecalc
  • Sandy by Trinity Agtech

 

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