We are pleased to announce that we have partnered with Trinity AgTech to use their end-to-end navigator software ‘Sandy’ to support our clients, both rural and commercial, to get a credible view of their natural capital and carbon to deliver long-term business development and opportunities.
Head of Agribusiness, David Kinnersley explained how we have been looking at carbon for over a decade and at natural capital for nearly six years. He said: “We’ve conducted extensive research and testing across a number of navigators and tools, but ‘Sandy’ really struck a chord with us and our clients as the best natural capital software tool out there. We especially respect the fact it uses the latest science, being certified to the highest standard available.
“It isn’t just a carbon-centric tool, but instead looks at the whole natural capital landscape, supporting decision-making for environmental benefits, business efficiency and financial sustainability. In recent years have we seen rapid growth in demand for analytical data and insight into natural capital on farmland.
“From a rural perspective, we want to help our farmers and landowners to identify business efficiencies and new income opportunities, especially with the reduction in government subsidies. Sandy will help these clients to identify the potential to improve their sustainability and unlock capital within their land, without the need to diversify outside of agriculture.
“We want to provide our internal teams and clients alike with a tool that will not only rigorously evidence the actions being taken on farms to improve carbon emissions, biodiversity, soil quality, and water protection measure but also enable them to model changes to help decide which actions to take.
“It can’t be underestimated how critical it will be to farm business prosperity in the long term to understand your natural capital position and take control of managing it effectively. This is especially crucial at this time for those in the dairy and fresh produce sector who may if they don’t take proactive action now, be forced into using alternatives which could incorrectly represent their farm and its practices.”
We continue to pride ourselves on helping clients to solve the natural capital jigsaw and this partnership will enable this, especially with Sandy’s easy-to-use, intuitive system that can adapt to individual users’ requirements.
”The scenario planning and AI capabilities are hugely beneficial, allowing for the ongoing evolution of farm management decisions. We want to work with our farmers and use the most robust science, tool and process that best represents our chosen land management practices.”
Commenting on the partnership, Trinity AgTech’s managing director of business development, Anna Woodley said: “We’re delighted to be working with Fisher German to help their clients to revolutionise their natural capital journey. They are a firm constantly looking to provide its clients with forward-thinking opportunities for business resilience and expansion and we believe the decision to offer them ‘Sandy’ is further evidence of this.”
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About Trinity Natural Capital Group
Trinity AgTech is a member of the Trinity Natural Capital Group. Trinity AgTech offers a cutting-edge new generation digital platform providing full sustainability decision support to farmers. Supported by a 41-strong Scientific Board, the company has developed an ecosystem of products, which in combination aim to improve the measurement of agricultural economics and sustainability.
Sandy is Trinity AgTech’s software for the farmer and is an end-to-end navigator which enables farmers and landowners to measure, manage and optimise all aspects of their natural capital assets. Sandy includes industry-leading modules for carbon, biodiversity, and water protection, as well as many other functions, and includes a full suite of non-prescriptive optimisation and scenario planning modules.
Whether the business goal is Net Zero, provenance backed produce, carbon-reduced farming or carbon trading, Sandy includes comprehensive reporting and optimisation functions to facilitate on-going improvement towards the farm’s sustainability journey.
Two other members of Trinity Natural Capital Group are Trinity Global Farm Pioneers (GFP) and Trinity Natural Capital Markets.
Trinity GFP was launched in May 2022 and is a new generation, non-profit, multi-lingual platform, which intelligently connects farmers from across the globe. Trinity GFP is open to all industry stakeholders, including farmers, agronomists, researchers, experts, processors, retailers, certifiers, cooperatives, and the finance sector who wish to collaborate and share knowledge to help develop best practices and new methods.
The latter, Trinity Natural Capital Markets, launched in October 2021, is the UK’s first trading marketplace for buyers and sellers of carbon credits and biodiversity tokens. Trinity NCM combines the best science and technology with a robust legal framework for fair, efficient and virtuous transactions.
