Mar 2025
The impacts on carbon and nature associated with transitioning to regenerative dairy farming practices
This document was prepared by the Farm Carbon Toolkit and commissioned by WWF to provide insight into the carbon and nature impacts of the transition to regenerative practices using three modelled dairy farm scenarios. Farm Carbon Toolkit constructed a set of dairy farm models to compare greenhouse gas emissions pre- and post-transitioning and assessed the current knowledge around the selected regenerative farming practices’ impacts on biodiversity and nature. Three baselines were constructed that differed in their level of grazing, including an intensively housed farm with zero grazing, a mixed housed-and-grazed farm and an extensively grazed farm. This document presents an overview of the methodology and results for the carbon emissions calculations and the findings from the literature review on nature impacts of key regenerative dairy practices.
This document is part of a larger work package on regenerative dairy prepared by WWF, including: