Not sure exactly

Posted on: June 10, 2024 at 09:32:38 CT

I have not gone into the depth of the models.

I know the various models, carbon footprint, greenhouse gas, water use, land use, and a few others are quite sophisticated on knowing various impacts.

So if you have your farm, you can see the effect of your farm. Some models are more generic, and others are constantly being updated. The amount of data out there is simply stunning. Like you can get complete weather data, energy data, costs, etc. down to the county level going back decades.

The biggest problem, to me, is how data is split out. say you own a factory that makes two products out of one. You can find out the data on your inputs, but then how do you split that amongst your two products. It is a bit confusing to me.

One example, since I work in swine production, they can report how much resources (named above) it takes to produce a pound of pork at different places in the world, and how that has changed over the last 40 years.

Another is when I worked in aquaculture and learned about salmon farming. Salmon need to be in a very tight temperature range for water to grow the most efficient. As water temperatures have increased (see haeffb's post), this has definitely impacted that market. It costs likely tens of millions of dollars in investments to build a farm and the infrastructure needed for it.

Moving it to better waters is not cheap.

sorry if I carried on a bit.

There are probably good models that have tried to understand the movements of the various components, but I have not seen the depths of those.