Standards
In many cases ICAL can produce a plan to allow a maximum carbon threshold per animal or kg of meat or milk.
This is achieved through an understanding of carbon architecture from the ground up, restructuring the carbon to make it more efficient.
An example of this in practice would be animal feed, several thousand tonnes may come onto the farm, the calorific value is used to make meat/milk, heat, gas and manure.
The availability of low carbon feed such as residues from the human food chain can also be optimised for those with feed systems that can utilise it.
United Nations FAO guidance on residues
An example of a method of carbon reduction from manure management would be - the first thing an animal does when it eats feed is to warm it up, it goes in at say 5°C and comes out at 37°C as manure. If the manure goes immediately to a biogas plant that operates at 37°C the calories used to warm it in the animal are utilised efficiently.
The biogas produced can be used to run a boiler that evaporates the water from the manure in a circular system, mitigating the need for slurry stores completely. All these factors are calculated to reflect the menu options chosen and to what degree implemented, resulting in a carbon reduction that can be certified and verified for credits.
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