Towards a More Regenerative and Diversified Future: The Role of Soil Carbon
Key Takeaway: Diversifying through regenerative practices and renewable energy projects is crucial for farmers to boost profitability and reduce climate risks. Agricarbon aids in soil carbon measurement, enabling farmers to make informed decisions, enhance soil health, and access carbon markets. This strategy promotes sustainability and economic viability in agriculture, highlighting the importance of proactive climate action and resource optimisation.
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Diversification is critical for farmers looking to improve their profitability and mitigate risks. Additionally, with climate change affecting the industry, it is now more important than ever to consider environmental impact.
The land sector has a unique opportunity to address the effects of climate change by taking carbon out of the atmosphere and locking it into the soil and biomass. Regenerative land management practices have the potential to sequester billions of tonnes of atmospheric CO2.
Manage What You Measure
This is where agricarbon comes in, offering farmers the ability to measure and monitor their soil carbon stocks and providing data that can be used to make informed decisions about their farming practices, which can also be monetised by the carbon markets or through net-zero strategies.
Soil health is an essential part of the farming ecosystem. Sustainable farming practices that sequester more carbon are known for providing benefits such as increased water holding capacity in the dry season, flood resilience, better structure, and acting as a reservoir of organic N, P, and other nutrients for plant productivity.
Improved soil health increases soil carbon, enhances biodiversity, and supports microbial activity and biological diversity. This results in positive impacts on the environment and farm economics.
Renewable energy projects are another way farmers can diversify their income streams. Combining solar panel projects with regenerative food crop production is a practice known as Agrivoltaics. By establishing a soil carbon baseline for the land around and underneath the solar panels, farmers can optimise land use, reducing their carbon footprint while increasing profitability.
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Agricarbon and Scottish Grants
By using Agricarbon’s services, farmers can use their data to make informed decisions about their farming practices, take climate-positive action, and monitor their progress towards net zero.
In Scotland, funding for soil sampling is available from The Scottish Government , covering basic nutrient tests and a comprehensive soil carbon stock baseline from Agricarbon. We have already worked with many farms in this capacity and are eager to help more farmers establish their carbon baseline (www.agricarbon.co.uk/scottish-grant)
Farmers can optimise land use, reduce carbon footprint, and increase profitability by measuring and monitoring soil carbon levels while promoting soil health, biodiversity, and renewable energy projects. With funding available for soil sampling in Scotland, now is the perfect time for farmers to start measuring their soil carbon and taking positive action toward a more regenerative future.
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About the Author – Dr. Harry Kamilaris
Dr Harry Kamilaris is a passionate Sustainability expert with a Doctorate in atmospheric and environmental sciences from The University of Edinburgh . He specialises in bioeconomic farm-level modelling and has a masterful understanding of sustainable agriculture practices. Now serving as a Senior Business Development Consultant at Agricarbon, Harry applies his talents to the critical innovation of soil carbon measurement.
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