Check Your Carbon Footprint - December 2009

With the current spotlight on global warming and CO2 emissions from agriculture, Dunbia in conjunction with Sainsbury’s, are attempting to pre-empt the ‘give up meat to save the planet’ lobby by carbon foot-printing key suppliers and have offered this service to Farm Stock members.

Their objective is to understand and improve the carbon footprint performance on supplier farms and individual units will be independently assessed and compared with benchmarks in an annual monitor, review and improve scenario. Early assessments have shown that significant cost savings and efficiencies can be achieved through greater awareness of carbon consumption and comparison with the footprints on similar farms.

The time commitment is approximately 2 hours annually and the cost is completely covered by Sainsbury’s. Anyone who is interested in taking up this unique offer should contact Jim Manderson for more details.