Tuesday January 10 2012

Dairy farmers who, up to now, have compared their farm against the neighbour’s farm in terms of litres of milk, fertility and EBI will soon have a new measurement to work off.

Teagasc is to launch a carbon-counting software programme that will enable farmers to rate themselves against the most carbon efficient farms in the country.

The Carbon Navigator, which is currently in prototype form, is aimed at calculating how carbon efficient individual dairy farms are.

Full article at – http://www.independent.ie/farming/news-features/carbon-navigator-to-get-a-dairy-run-out-2983475.html