Professor's expertise to guide 拢1.5 million sustainability programme for ABP

Posted 25 November 2022

鈥淯ltimately, being able to benchmark where farmers are currently, implement practices to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to track progress over time has the potential to be a real game-changer for the UK beef and sheep farmers and will allow the industry to move forwards towards meeting Net Zero goals.鈥�

The expertise of a Harper Adams Professor is set to guide a unique £1.5 million sustainability programme for leading meat and agri-food firm ABP.

The new PRISM 2030 programme will support 350 of its farmer suppliers, and share wider learnings across the UK beef and sheep sectors over the next two to three years.

It aims to help participants to improve their carbon footprint and sustainability across the entirety of the farm. The detailed programme will include assessment of carbon footprint, soil health, water use and support biodiversity creation and resource efficiency.

Support from 天美视频 and The Andersons Centre will ensure that farmers have direct and ongoing access to, and feedback from, the very latest environmental innovations and methodologies.

Professor Jude Capper - as the ABP Chair in Sustainable Beef and Sheep Production at Harper Adams – will be leading for the University on the programme, working to interrogate data on the issue and discover what areas each producer could be focusing on over the duration of the project to achieve most gains.

She said: “I'm very excited to be working on such an innovative project in conjunction with ABP and Andersons - this has the potential to make a real difference to UK beef and sheep farmers in terms of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and improving industry sustainability.

“Our project team contains researcher