Sustainability

LMC has been actively engaged through its work with the Northern Ireland Red Meat Strategic Forum in developing the Forum’s vision for a sustainable and profitable red meat industry in Northern Ireland. The Forum has identified a number of important sustainability parameters that need to be addressed in development of this vision including:

• the maintenance and growth of the local cattle and sheep supply base;
• ensuring the economic viability of farm and processing businesses;
• sustainability of the environment (biodiversity & land utilisation);
• making the best use of locally available resources e.g. conversion of human inedible grass to human edible protein;
• using a type of livestock best suited to achieve this;
• utilising technically efficient systems which by their nature contribute to improvements in the carbon emissions profile, and;
• socially acceptable production systems

LMC is actively involved in a number of working groups, initiatives and implementation partnerships aimed at delivering the vision of a sustainable and profitable red meat industry in Northern Ireland including the Sustainable Agriculture Initiative Platform Beef Working Group and the DARD co-ordinated Agriculture & Forestry Greenhouse Gas Implementation Partnership which completed the Efficient Farming Cuts Greenhouse Gases report at the end of 2011. Click here to download the report.

To learn more about any of LMC’s sustainability activities please call LMC on 028 9263 3000