Simon Butler

Dairy and beef farmer

[Simon Butler @SimonnButler]

Despite the rough winter the winter barley is humming nicely 👌

[Simon Butler @SimonnButler]

@JerryMoloney1 Using tapo cameras here now set up in 5mins quality's good enough

[Irish Farmers Journal @farmersjournal]

Butter and cheese remain Ireland’s largest value generating dairy products accounting for 47% of all export value in 2024.
https://t.co/EUrERQtUIf

[Simon Butler @SimonnButler]

@JerryMoloney1 @1noeloconnor @OcMaurice https://t.co/7RC1hHbeWa

[kohima 🌱 @kohima_farm]

One litre of milk emits more carbon than burning one litre of petrol.

I’m sorry, what?

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, producing one litre of milk emits 2.5 kg of CO2 equivalent, while burning one litre of petrol emits 2.3 kg.

If that comparison doesn’t make you question the logic behind carbon accounting, congratulations, you’ve been conditioned by bad data.

Take the BBC’s Food Carbon Calculator. It claims that drinking 400 litres of milk is equivalent to driving 40 miles in a petrol car. And just seven McDonald’s Quarter Pounders could apparently get you from London to Malaga by plane.

It’s absurd. These numbers are wrong. And they distort public perception of agriculture.

Why? Because carbon accounting assumes my cows are powered by fossil fuels. In reality, the carbon in milk comes from crops , silage and grains , that draw carbon from the air. My cows don’t dig carbon out of the ground; they cycle it through life itself.

But the models don’t account for that.

They also ignore balance and boundaries. When we measure a litre of petrol, we only count its combustion. When we measure a litre of milk, we include everything: global land-use change, fertiliser production in Egypt, deforestation in Brazil, even if none of it applies. All that gets loaded onto the farmer’s books.

Agriculture is the only industry forced to carry the world’s emissions baggage.

And then there’s the use of global averages. They inflate numbers to make farming look worse. UK milk, for instance, has about half the emissions of the global average — but that nuance never makes the headlines.

Finally, no one credits farmers for the carbon we capture. The hedgerows, pastures, and trees on my land , all actively storing carbon, are invisible in the data.

The result? A narrative designed to vilify the very people who feed and steward the planet.

It’s time to challenge the false arithmetic of carbon accounting and restore scientific integrity to how we measure nature’s cycles.

Farmers aren’t the problem. They’re part of the solution.

~Farmtheory

[Simon Butler @SimonnButler]

@JerryMoloney1 Have you tested it for salt?

[Emerald Ice Cream @Irish_IceCream]

⭐️ GREAT TASTE AWARDS 2025 ⭐️

We are delighted to share that we’ve scooped up not one, not two but FIVE Great Taste Awards for Emerald Ice Cream! ⭐️

Thank you @guildoffinefood, we are thrilled. 🤩

#EmeraldIceCream #GreatTasteAwards #GreatTaste2025 #GuildofFineFood

[Simon Butler @SimonnButler]

@2pintpaddy Did you take dung sample to vets

[Simon Butler @SimonnButler]

Forage rye out spring barley in🌾

[Simon Butler @SimonnButler]

@CallansCows @DLF_IRL @EdwardKehoe7 Ours is about the same any worries about it going down? Thinking about mowing end of week and going with spring barley

[Simon Butler @SimonnButler]

Came across an interesting bit of farm history at the weekend 🐄

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@JerryMoloney1 Put magnet in this year, you'd be shocked at what you'd find on it

[Simon Butler @SimonnButler]

Anyone in Ireland using @halterHQ ?

[Niall Boylan @Niall_Boylan]

I heard some gobshite Irish government TD talking about how wrong it was for Trump to suggest a tarrif on cars unless they are made in America.
This is the same Irish government who have been charging extortionate VRT and VAT on Imported cars in Ireland for years.

[Simon Butler @SimonnButler]

Anyone service forster technik calf feeders in munster area?

[Simon Butler @SimonnButler]

Wonder what teagsc would think 🤔

[Edinvale Farm 🌱🐂 @EdinvaleFarm]

Big heavy cattle are highly suitable for high rainfall areas said none ever.

Feel sorry for the poor buggers that are going to have to handle the beasts.

This is pure elitist rewilding willy waving. It's ridiculous not to be using adapted native cows

https://t.co/2XFB39cMVT

[ConceptDairy™ @ConceptDairy]

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If you're eager to delve deeper into this issue, stay tuned and follow us for more.

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[Simon Butler @SimonnButler]

First time growing our own grain for combining hopefully the weather plays ball 🤞

[Simon Butler @SimonnButler]

@JerryMoloney1 @DarraghScott @MikeMagan1 @brianrushe81 Spread half of 2nd cut with can sulp and half with urea , stuff done with can was heavier , all 3rd cut got can and is flying