NFU: Flawed measurement systems could undermine farmers' green efforts

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Farmers' union says new ways of calculating emissions needed to better monitor progress towards cutting carbon from agricultural sector

The National Farmers Union (NFU) is confident that more efficient production methods will cut up to three million tonnes of carbon from agricultural operations by 2020 without lowering production, as long...

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