Pressuring by pretending

This week on Factum-Agri farmer Sara Black joined me to discuss how the summer season is going and what the big issues are for farmers currently. 4,000 Corriedale ewes and 400 Angus breeding cows are farmed between Marble Point and their 70ha block down the road. All of that when you look around is sequestering carbon, but it doesn't meet the criteria of the ETS. Which seems crazy when sheep and beef farmers have one of the lowest carbon footprints in the world. We have to recognise and calculate all on-farm sequestration, because unless this is counted there can’t be a net emission profile.