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Why baseline measurement makes sense Carbon capture: (l-r) agronomist Sam Hugill with farmers
Jane and Nick Wilson
The Terramap Carbon has been tested on a number of farms – including Hundayfield Farm at Marton cum Grafton, near York. The farm consists of 260ha of mainly arable cropping, with land let out for potatoes, and winter sheep on stubble turnips. There are also bed & breakfast cattle which utilise the farm buildings and some of the permanent grass in the rotation. For farmer Nick Wilson and agronomist Sam Hugill, carbon is part of the whole farm system. Both men believe it is useful to ob- tain a baseline measurement now, so they have an accurate fig- ure to work from going forward. Mr Wilson says: ”We always look at what we do and how we can do better and carbon is part of that. How much we do about it will ultimately be driven by policy – but whatever decisions we make have to be good for us agronomically and economically.” Scanning highlighted big differences in the carbon balance be- tween arable fields and permanent pasture. The average across arable fields was about 30t/ha of organic carbon with almost dou- ble that for the permanent pasture. Mr Hugill says: “Now we have a baseline measurement, we can look not just how we can manage our processes to build carbon on the arable fields up to the levels of that of the pasture, but also to prevent any unnecessary losses of carbon.”
Other benefits
There are other benefits too. Hav- ing a negative carbon balance also means lower input costs – using more efficient fertilisers and reducing usage of fossil fu- els. “It’s a win– win on all levels,” explains Mr Ward. Results from Terramap Car- bon can be aligned with the car- bon costs of different machin- ery operations. This includes detailed calculations for power, width, work rate and fuel – gen- erated using the specialist Farm Carbon Toolkit.
The impact of different rotation
scenarios can then be calculated – from cropping types and varieties to stewardship and management practices. From this, growers can
see first-hand the projected CO2 impact and financial performance for each scenario.
This data is used to calcu- late carbon costs – and whether it makes sense to continue pro- ducing food or take land out of production under Defra’s forth- coming Environmental Land Management Scheme.
“This is where the ability to look at different scenarios is in- valuable,” says Mr Ward.
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