Cover crops – restoring soil
Reading Time: 4 minutes
Cover crops are one of many mechanisms that can help shift agriculture from destructive and sick to regenerative and healthy.
Author Archive for: Craig Galloway
Entries by Craig Galloway
Should we always trust agricultural research?
Reading Time: 5 minutes
There is a huge issue in agriculture that most of the research, especially prominent research, is driven by the agrochemical agenda.
The carbon balance on dairy farms
Reading Time: 5 minutes
There are seven farms which have negative net carbon emissions for the duration of this study. That is amazing! It completely changes the narrative of the negative impact of dairy farming.
The impact of livestock on biodiversity
Reading Time: 3 minutes
Livestock, farming, farmers, meat – they are all often just grouped into one category and linked to negative environmental impacts. This is very unfair.
What do the Trace & Save sustainability scores tell us?
Reading Time: 7 minutes
We have been very encouraged to see improvements. Most farmers working with us have really shown a strong desire to improve the sustainability of their farms.
Case study: How to reduce your carbon footprint
Reading Time: 6 minutes
Agriculture is often pointed at as the source of high greenhouse gas emissions. How can dairy farmers reduce their carbon footprint?
Wasted energy
Reading Time: 2 minutes
We are borrowing non-renewable resources from past and future generations to support this one. That is the very opposite of sustainable agriculture.
Evidence of the economic advantages of working with Trace & Save
Reading Time: 7 minutes
Farmers do not gain economic advantages because they make use of the Trace & Save tools. Farmers improve because they manage their farms better – the tools help them to do this.
Eight years of dairy farm carbon footprints
Reading Time: 5 minutes
Climate change is a huge challenge facing society, and dairy farms are often pointed at as having a large carbon footprint.
Case study: Growing cheaper pastures
Reading Time: 6 minutes
The take-away challenge is for farmers to assess whether their fertiliser costs are decreasing per pasture produced. Are you growing cheaper pastures?