FARMING WITH CONSCIENCE
Soil Carbon Mapping
Our regenerative farming focus is helping to build future resilience into our agricultural operations and supply chains as we actively work towards low carbon pig and poultry production.
We are using Hutchinson’s TerraMap Carbon system to map soil organic carbon. This allows us to determine true carbon uplifts while highlighting areas to build up carbon or prevent unnecessary losses.
Our focus is now on evolving our mapping work to develop a low carbon plan for our outdoor pigs, which will increase the soil’s ability within our farms to cycle the carbon. We have planted cover crops to lock nutrients into the soil and established grass clover leys in front of the pigs in the rotation to minimise bare ground.
With the help of the Carbon Trust accredited Alltech E-CO₂ tool, we continue to track our pig and poultry agricultural footprint. This gives us invaluable insights into on-farm level assessments of both environmental and carbon measurement to help improve performance.
