Carbon

Carbon Footprinting

Written by Becky Willson from the Farm Carbon Cutting ToolkitThe old adage of you can’t manage what you can’t measure is certainly true of carbon accounting. But when it comes to agriculture, measuring carbon isn’t as simple as it may first seem. The variation of emissions and carbon stocks are due to the fact that …

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SOIL ORGANIC MATTER AND ITS ROLE IN CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION

Written by Mark Measures BSc. (Hons.), IOTA (Accredited), ARAgS, Churchill Fellow 2017 of the Organic Research Centre,first Published July 2018 SOM is important and that poor rotations and lack of organic matter inputs might be something to do with their poor soil structure and static or declining yields. Organic farmers have always believed that SOM …

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