Farm Carbon Audit

The most comprehensive net-zero journey planner and carbon audit tool available for the food and farming industry.

Designed to cover a complete range of agricultural practices and enterprises. The new generation farm carbon calculator within Sandy enables you to complete farm carbon audits to the highest analytical and scientific integrity.

Understand your farm carbon footprint at the field, product, enterprise, and whole-farm level.

Beyond simply measuring farm carbon emissions, Sandy’s dedicated carbon module provides personalised pathways to net-zero on your farming system - combining natural capital, agricultural and financial data to credibly forecast the impact of farm management decisions.

Why use Sandy for your farm carbon audit?

While carbon becomes increasingly important to farm business, the greatest rewards will be reaped by those who look beyond carbon tunnel vision to take a holistic view of their farm’s natural capital.

Agriculture must balance environmental gains, food security and profitability. Carbon sequestration, nature and habitat restoration, and water protection can - and do - happen in conjunction with profitable, productive agriculture.

Carbon neutral farming is not always the correct target for all farms in the short to medium term and It is important not to lose sight of the positive environmental changes that can be made today alongside carbon sequestration.

It is essential that we choose the right software that considers these dynamics, accurately represents farming systems of all types and sizes and evidences the positive changes of these co-benefits to improve business resilience and profitability.

Sandy is the only navigator with a new generation carbon calculator to generate credible and reliable carbon footprints using the most up-to-date methodology and independently verified science to explore the full range of natural capital opportunities.

Sandy’s new generation natural capital navigator includes the most comprehensive carbon calculator in food and farming

Screenshot of soil data entry for carbon audit report in Sandy, fields include tillage, soil type and bulk density.

Easy to use carbon audit:

  • Sandy pre-populates much of the data from your existing agtech software, saving time and data entry.

  • A flexible, structured data input process supports the user throughout.

  • Understand your farm’s carbon facts. Clear, precise output allows for a simple overview of results, with detail where it’s needed.

So much more than a farm carbon calculator.

Sandy is a new generation smart natural capital navigator.

Sandy carbon calculation showing total farm net carbon balance, emissions and sequestration.

The most credible & scientific farm carbon calculator

  • Created by an industry-leading panel of experts

  • Independently verified science: Certified to ISO 14067 - the broadest standard for carbon footprinting in the food and farming sector - using the latest IPCC 2019 methodology, including a sector-leading Tier 2 soil carbon model.

  • A powerful greenhouse gas modelling framework compliant with and able to report to the main carbon standards; PAS2050 and GHG Protocol.

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Applicable to all major farming systems and enterprises

  • Relevant to conventional, organic, and regenerative farming systems.

  • Covers all major enterprises on-farm.

  • Results are presented at the field, product, farm, and business level.

Screenshot of carbon calculation breakdown for arable farm system in Sandy showing total emissions in KG of CO2 equivalent and global warming potential.

Provide key carbon sequestration and mitigation options

  • Includes soil carbon, agroforestry, and technologies such as anaerobic digestion,
    biochar production, and greener energy.

  • Carbon equivalent calculations: Includes the most powerful soil carbon model in the sector, for the most accurate estimates of soil sequestration under your specific soil type and management.

  • A dedicated agroforestry module allows for in-depth analysis of the benefits of agroforestry and carbon sequestration of trees on the farm for both carbon and financial sustainability.

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Provide tailored pathways to carbon neutral farming and beyond

  • You can easily assess the carbon status of your farm system relative to the potential with our scientific benchmarking algorithms.

  • Scenario analysis tools allow you to assess the impacts of individual management changes on your emissions.

  • Provides the most cost-effective actions you can take to mitigate emissions on your farming system and to reach net-zero.

  • Enables you to assess how changes will impact your carbon, productivity and profitability

The farmers who trust Sandy

  • Tim Parton

    “I’ve always had a passion for soil health, and I always use science to make informed decisions, which is one reason why I chose Sandy”

    Tim Parton - Brewood Park Farm

  • Michael Kavannagh

    “The sector is in pioneering times and there’s going to be a lot of change in the next five years. It was important to find a navigator we could rely on and trust”

    Michael Kavanagh - Green Farm Collective

  • Craig Livingstone

    “The rigour in the way Trinity AgTech were asking questions gave me confidence that they understand what we’re trying to achieve at Lockerley”

    Craig Livingstone - Lockerley Estate

Sandy FAQs

  • Beyond food production, farmers offer greater ‘public goods’ through their management of the land and environmental stewardship.

    Natural capital can be defined as the Earth’s stock of natural resources and environmental assets that have a practical and social value for people.

    Examples of natural capital at a farm level include: soil, water, air, wildlife (biodiversity), trees and carbon-capturing plants, moors and peatlands, historical features, and public access (footpaths and bridleways).

    Farmers have always taken pride in their role in protecting the environment, but greater public awareness and government targets to reduce the impact on the planet has brought the issue into focus.

    While natural capital benefits farmers on a private level, the concept of adding a monetary value to natural capital creates an opportunity for farmers to futureproof their businesses and be rewarded for their work in improving natural assets which have a wider benefit to society.

    But to do this, you need a tool that can credibly analyse and demonstrate your impact by providing a natural capital audit and baseline.

  • Farmers are facing increasing pressure from government and private markets to protect the natural environment. With subsidies in decline, long-term business stability needs to be the focus.

    Understanding your natural capital makes good business sense.

    In the future, you can expect natural capital to appear on the balance sheet and be valued in the same way as traditional farm assets. Being able to put a true value on this, by credibly measuring the worth of your natural capital is essential for seizing opportunities and improving your bottom line.

    We urge farmers not to wait for policy to catch up, and to get ahead of the curve by using Sandy to complete a natural capital audit to understand the full scale, value and options of the natural assets on your farm.

    Looking at your farm though a natural capital lens opens new avenues for increasing profits, setting and meeting sustainability targets, making greater efficiencies and cost savings, and remaining compliant with regulations.

    We believe farmers should be rewarded for their stewardship in protecting the land for future generations. Ultimately, natural capital is a solution for creating financial, social and environmental resilience for your farm business.

  • Sandy is an award-winning, new generation smart ‘natural capital navigator’.

    It is smart farm software to help you credibly measure, manage and monetise your natural capital to support on-farm decision making for maximised sustainability and profit.

    The future of farm profitability and business resilience goes beyond traditional crop and livestock productivity metrics.

    Sandy is the only smart natural capital navigator that is completely independent, new generation, and created for farms and enterprises of all types and sizes.

    Whatever your environmental and financial goals, Sandy provides a trusted, scientific solution to ensure your business remains viable in a changing landscape, without the need to diversify into non farming activities.

    We know all farms are different, so why use a first-generation tool that sees all systems the same?

  • Farmers are embracing change, but until now they have been poorly served by first generation tools that do not credibly account for unique farming systems. Sandy corrects this.

    Sandy's unique features:

    •100% independent of outside interests, agribusinesses or investors

    •Designed to be be used for farms of all types and sizes, with dedicated modules in carbon, biodiversity, water protection, agroforestry, grasslands, lowland and upland peat

    •Make insightful decisions: Plan, test and optimise tailored farm management scenarios with our whole-farm predictive intelligence technology

    •Uses the latest science and most robust analytics, including: 2019 IPCC Soil Carbon Guidelines, an ISO-accredited industry ‘super-standard’, independently verified and certified to ISO 14064, and compliant with PAS20250 and GHG protocol carbon standards

    •Created by the sector’s largest, industry-leading, independent panel of scientific experts, including former developers of Agrecalc and Cool Farm Tool (meet our team)

    •Results and analysis generated at the crop, field and farm level

    •Integrates with third-party software such as Gatekeeper and MuddyBoots to reduce time and data entry

  • Request a free demo of Sandy by filling in the online form.

    Our Customer Success team will contact you within 24 hours.

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