Sandy – A New Category of Software to Navigate Carbon and Natural Capital

Assessing carbon and natural capital has become a serious undertaking with significant repercussions for the farming and food supply chain.

In the past, during the ‘Wild West’ era, where confirmation-bias or box-ticking prevailed, ‘free’ and ‘easy’ options were sought after. Any software delivering to these parameters attracted a user base.

However, that era and its futility came to an end in early January when Defra launched its report – ‘Harmonisation of Carbon Accounting Tools for Agriculture’.

Standards, protocols, rigour and well executed methods, combined with continuous innovation and collaborative learning are the recipes of success in today’s new ‘Collective Era’. All these parameters will help to deliver robust supply chains, environmental progress, and prosperous rural communities.

To this end, Sandy is in a complete league of its own and is uniquely positioned for this era. The tools capabilities have placed it in a distinct new category of software – the ‘Smart Precision Navigation’ category.

What is the ‘Smart Precision Navigation’ category?
Having recognised the extreme pitfall of ‘first generation’ carbon calculators, Trinity AgTech has pioneered food and farming’s ‘Smart Precision Navigation’ category of software, which Sandy leads.
This means that Sandy is optimised and built from the ground up to focus on continuously delivering increasing value by leveraging cutting-edge proven insights and methods in science, technology, assessment standards, and farming.

This ‘Smart Precision Navigation’ category is unique in delivering:
- Genuine peace of mind and reliable long-term solutions that will remain relevant and effective going forwards, avoiding the pitfalls of becoming outdated or less efficient over time
- Robust security and safety
- Increased efficiency and time savings through seamless connection with other systems and technologies
- Solutions tailored for a rapidly changing and innovative new era, addressing a growing range of threats and opportunities with precise, actionable, holistic, multi-objective solutions
- Professional growth and increasing levels of curiosity and discovery through supporting pioneering communities

How is Sandy different from first generation software?
Sandy is significantly different from the ‘first generation software’ that is often used to assess mainly farm-level carbon. Sandy uniquely provides farmers and key sector stakeholders access to distinctive and relevant science methods, services and platforms that are evidenced, credible and trusted, and that add value throughout the supply chain.
- This new category of software, that navigates not just carbon but all our natural capital assets, has been meticulously developed to avoid many of the issues associated with first generation calculators, including:
- Gross simplification, misrepresentation and pseudo-science; achieved by embracing cutting-edge technological and scientific advances to embrace and address the complexity of agriculture, while being practical to use at farm-level
- Inaction and misinformed responses that exponentially grow over 2+ years; achieved by a distinctive performance culture and a capability platform for continuously generating value and innovations for clients
- Comfort-seeking, delusion making and scare-mongering tactics; achieved by rigorously seeing and solving problems by applying best available national and global capabilities, protocols and standards

What does this new category of carbon assessment tool mean for the industry?
Sandy represents a significant leap forward in agricultural technology. By focusing on smart precision, continuous innovation, and constructively addressing the complexities of modern agriculture, we are not just keeping pace with the times and the assessment protocols – we are delivering a new standard for the future.
Sandy has been engineered to help copilot an ‘all-win’ system transition in agriculture.
Whether you are a farmer or farm consultant looking to insightfully manage your natural capital and maximise its opportunities, a retailer looking to cut scope 3 emissions and secure resilient food supply chains, or a banker looking to de-risk agricultural borrowings, Sandy is here to serve all of agriculture’s many stakeholders.

Source: https://www.trinityagtech.com/