What is FARMSCOPER?
FARMSCOPER is a decision support tool that can be used to assess diffuse agricultural pollutant loads on a farm and quantify the impacts of farm mitigation methods on these pollutants. It also determines potential additional consequences of mitigation method implementation for biodiversity, water use and energy use.
The farm systems within the tool can be customised to reflect management and environmental conditions representative of farming across England and Wales. The tool contains over 100 mitigation methods, including many of those in the latest Defra Mitigation Method User Guide.
FARMSCOPER has been modified under Defra’s Integrated Advice Pilot Study, and is designed to complement the use of the Integrated Advice Packages also developed under this project. FARMSCOPER was originally developed under Defra project WQ0106.
Useful Links:
Project report on the original version of Farmscoper
Mitigation Method User Guide August 2011
How do I get a copy?
FARMSCOPER is free to download from this website.
Click here to download Farmscoper v2.0
If you are currently unable to download Farmscoper, please email Richard Gooday.
The installation of Farmscoper places all the files necessary to use the tool in a directory. By default this directory is: C:\Program Files\ADAS\Farmscoper2
An icon is not created in the windows Start Menu or included on the desktop.
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