@farmermat1 That will reduce the hard feed requirements!

Big day lifting and stacking wee bales. Good to have the hay in the shed!

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@RossCherrington Easy to spot the ones I do.

Ewes and lambs moved on to multi species sward. Looking forward to seeing how they do.....

The lambing roller coaster continues. The day started with unexpected death and ended with unexpected life. Thanks to honddu vets....

1 month 'til lambing. Ewes in great fettle and enjoying their hay #onlygrass. Beautiful sunrise.

@ThrimbyFarms @farmermat1 True 🤣 - just too interesting!

@farmermat1 @1GarethWynJones It's a pleasure working with you and the Morrisons farmers on measuring the impacts of actions you have taken to reduce GHG emissions. Over the last 4 years we have made real progress - enabled by @Morrisons investment in #climateaction and their direct relationship with farmers

The best mainstream media article on the role of regen ag systems (backed by scientific literature) - about limits of C seq in soils. Regen has lots of benefits (GHG and climate resilience), but we need to be realistic. Well done @FT and @sophieaplin

@GMH_HaydenM @GHGGuru Hi @GMH_HaydenM. We have been modelling impacts of efficiency using a lifetime productivity approach- really useful to show interactions of feed and forage efficiency and herd fertility and longevity. Great for farmer engagement as it dynamically updates when we adjust parameters

@GHGGuru Hi Frank, No, not one of the authors but the analysis reflects what we have seen and the modelling we have done @MapOfAg. We have built a dairy and beef lifetime productivity model to assess the impacts of efficiency on emissions intensity.

@GHGGuru @Alicewants2know Its a long flat line over 4kFPCM... better efficiency improves emissions intensity. Our modelling of imacts of input efficiency and herd performance show over 4k FPCM can have a very similar emissions to 12K animals. Its all about the divisor of maintence. The graph shows this.

@ThrimbyFarms Great thread. In my experience as a new entrant, the advice provided by farmers on practical stuff has been far more valuable than any thing else. I benefited from the @FarmingConnect mentoring scheme which worked really well. Less about reports on shelves & more local knowledge

View from the boardroom at UC Dublin, Lyons farm this morning. Discussing "Solutions and Innovations in the Agri-Food Industry"

@farmermat1 @FarmingAwards Good luck.

@farmermat1 @ThrimbyFarms @FarmingAwards And have very low emissions

@farmermat1 Low emissions protein - right there.

@PowlsonDavid Any views or links to reliable evidence on the impacts of enhanced rock weathering?