Awarded: £3,620

Farm Carbon Toolkit staff will travel to Orkney to meet with farmers and other relevant organisations and then workshop the shape of a new Farm Net Zero programme for the island. This will enable stakeholders on Orkney to benefit from the learnings from Farm Net Zero in Cornwall. Project partners are the University of the Highlands and Islands, the local authority and agricultural organisations such as the Orkney Agricultural Society.

There are 1,900 farms on Orkney with a significant population of beef cattle (39,000 suckler cows [3% total UK numbers]) and hence there is significant scope through farming practice change to reduce livestock-associated emissions. In addition there are two distilleries on Orkney with the opportunity to explore potential emissions reduction associated with peat extraction and whisky production.