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Carbon Auditing

Know what your farm produces, and what it is already storing.
Carbon auditing measures your farm’s emissions and how much carbon your land already sequesters, giving you a clear benchmark for smarter land management. A more efficient farm is a more profitable one, and understanding your numbers is the first step either way.

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Understanding your farm’s carbon position.

Carbon auditing measures the greenhouse gas emissions your farming enterprise produces, and how much carbon your land already sequesters. Agriculture accounts for 11% of the UK’s total greenhouse gas emissions, so understanding your own numbers matters more than ever, both for regulatory scrutiny and for spotting where efficiency and profit overlap.

A carbon audit will help you:

Understand how and where carbon is sequestered
Identify sources of GHG emissions
Determine opportunities for emission reduction and avoidance

It starts with a farm inspection, carried out by our Chartered Surveyors, to assess land type and use, since an arable farm produces and stores carbon differently to a livestock farm. From there, farm carbon calculator tools identify emission sources, sequestration areas and where improvements are realistic. Establishing new woodland can also create carbon units that are sold on national markets, alongside the grants already available to help cover creation costs.

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Chris Tipping
FRICS FAAV
Haywards Heath

01444 412402
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Alex Wilks
MRICS FAAV
Pulborough

01798 877555
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Toby Trotman
MRICS
Tunbridge Wells

01892 509280
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Carbon numbers are only part of the picture

A carbon audit tells you where your farm stands, but turning that into income or savings usually means looking at it alongside the wider mix of grants and environmental schemes available to your land.

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Common questions about carbon auditing

It starts with a farm inspection to assess land type and use, since an arable farm produces and stores carbon differently to a livestock farm. From there, farm carbon calculator tools identify your emission sources, sequestration areas and where realistic improvements can be made.

Efficiency and profit tend to move together, so even a well-run farm benefits from knowing exactly where its emissions and carbon storage sit, both to defend that position under growing scrutiny and to spot further gains you might not have considered.

Yes, establishing new woodland can create carbon units that are sold on national markets, and there are grants available to help cover the cost of creating that woodland in the first place.

Yes, an arable farm produces and stores carbon differently to a livestock farm, so the audit and the improvements it suggests are specific to your land and enterprise, not a generic checklist.

There’s no fixed rule, but many farms repeat the audit every few years, or after a significant change in land use or enterprise, to keep an accurate, up-to-date benchmark rather than relying on a single snapshot.