NFU Cymru have organised a week long campaign of activities to promote Welsh food and agriculture, titled Welsh Farming Week, which started on Monday 6th June and will run until Friday 10th June.
Sustainability is a key part of our business, with our mission being to help farmers feed the UK in a more sustainable way. As a business, we are working towards becoming carbon net zero and aim to support our customers with products and services that help drive sustainability and efficiencies. Through our feed division we have made the following commitments:
From the 1st May 2022 three new Climate compounds will be available with the inclusion of Rumitech®, a methane reducing additive.
In 1987, the United Nations (UN) defined sustainability as ‘meeting the needs of the present without compromising the needs of future generations’. If we then relay this to food production, it’s producing nutritional food in a system that’s productive, profitable and resilient, while tackling climate change. But what does this actually mean for dairy farmers who are aiming to produce more sustainably?
Our sustainability partner Caplor will be attending this year’s Low Carbon Agriculture Show. The show is a fantastic opportunity to discover some of the latest innovations in sustainability within agriculture. You can expect to see the latest developments in low emission farm vehicles, low carbon practices and more. For Wynnstay customers attending the show, the Caplor team will be on hand to help you calculate the savings you could be making on-farm by changing to one of their renewable energy options.
Follow our wildflower growing guide to help create a bee and wildlife haven. Wildflowers have proven to benefit farmland such as improving the wildlife on your farm by improving habitats for pollinators, farmland birds and other wildlife.
The UK Government will continue to offer Countryside Stewardship agreements in2022 and 2023.
Countryside Stewardship will eventually be replaced with the new Environmental Land Management (ELM) scheme. This will follow trialling and testing and a national pilot involving farmers and land managers during the next few years.
From November 2021, all palm kernel in feeds produced at any Wynnstay manufacturing site has been RSPO certified sustainable.
The switch is part of a company-wide proactive approach to sustainability. Farmers are working hard to produce food using sustainable practices, and responsible sourcing of inputs is a big part of this. As a feed company, we can contribute by transitioning to sustainable-certified ingredients, which will support our farmers in meeting future sustainability requirements. Switching to sustainably certified palm kernel is the logical next step in ensuring responsible sourcing, following from the move to using only sustainable certified soya in 2020.
We believe the use of certified sustainable soya in animal feed is the most appropriate option to minimise negative impacts on the environment now, while allowing time for sustainable supply chains for alternative protein sources to develop.
With recent media and government focus on global issues such as climate change, deforestation, and sustainability, and in particular how the agricultural sector is contributing to these, we are continually reviewing how we can reduce our environmental impact through more sustainable practices.
