NI farmers team up to launch innovative carbon project
NI farmers team up to launch innovative carbon project Seven farmers from across Northern Ireland have teamed up to secure funding from Europe to investigate practical ways to measure, manage and reduce carbon emissions from ruminant farming. Dubbed ARCZero’ (an acronym for Accelerating Ruminant Carbon to Zero), the group will work alongside AgriSearch, Devenish, Birnie Consultancy and Queen’s University Belfast. The first challenge is to determine how much carbon is held in their soils through soil sampling and analysis. Then, using aerial LiDAR surveying they’ll try to fully understan...
Source: agriland.ie
