Advanced herd management techniques can reduce a beef farmer’s carbon footprint by 40 percent according to modelling work done by the Stabiliser Cattle Company and reported in a recent edition of Farmers Weekly magazine. Focusing on the experience of Harri Parri, who farms 293 ha (723 acres) at Crugeran, Pwllheli and manages a herd of 200 performance-recorded Stabiliser cattle, the article cites nine critical factors required to optimise herd efficiency.
Harri says the nine key factors are:
“It’s 40 percent health, 40 percent nutrition, and 20 percent genetics, so for low-carbon, profitable suckler beef you need health and nutrition as the cornerstone for the genetics to thrive,” says Harri, who farms with his wife, Elin, and parents, Richard and Rhian.
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