The calculator is not the problem. The activity data is.
The Cool Farm Tool will give you a defensible footprint from IPCC methodology. It needs fertiliser rates, yields, residue management and energy use for every farm in your supply base. Tracebud collects that from producers on their own phones and hands it over, plot by plot.
We adapt the live EUDR platform to carbon accounting, with 2–3 partners.
You shape what ships — and keep preferential terms for your entire contract duration.
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- Greenhouse gasesper product
- Waterper crop
- Biodiversitywhole farm
- Food loss and wasteper lot
How measured data reaches you
A factor is a guess. A plot is a measurement.
The four questions that make a calculation real can only be answered on the plot. The ask travels down to get there.
An invitation is a request, not access. Every figure is labelled primary or modelled, a plot that lapses leaves the removals, and producers never pay.
How it works
Watch one plot through two seasons.
The same plot as the regenerative programme, carrying the same number, measured twice. Two products: the Field App the producer and agent carry, and the Dashboard the calculation runs in.
Nov 2023 · Field App
The activity data comes off the plot.
Fertiliser, fuel, residue handling and what was planted, recorded on PLOT-1182 by the person standing on it. This is the same plot record the regenerative programme opened.
Jan 2024 · Dashboard
The calculation shows its working.
Cool Farm runs on the recorded data, and every figure is labelled with where it came from. A reviewer can see which numbers are measured and which are modelled before trusting the total.
Nov 2024 · Field App
A year on, the same plot is measured again.
Removals only count if the trees are still there. The recheck that the regenerative programme runs is the same visit that keeps this figure honest.
Feb 2025 · Dashboard
The change is attributed, then handed on.
Two seasons of measured data on one plot, with what changed and why. This is the figure the Scope 3 inventory reads, at the data quality it actually has.
This plot is the same PLOT-1182 that appears in the regenerative programme and again in Scope 3. One plot record, handed along the chain rather than rebuilt three times.
The inputs, and who gives them
Fill every field the calculator asks for.
This is the honest version of a carbon programme. Some inputs are already in the plot record, some are one question added to a visit the producer already makes, and a few have to be modelled. Coverage is shown per field, because a footprint built on 30% coverage is not a footprint.
The rate is a number a producer can be asked for once. The photograph is what makes it checkable.
In · what we hand over
Every line dated, named and photographed in the plot record.
Through · your calculator
Cool Farm, your consultant’s model, or your own spreadsheet.
Its factors, its methodology, its assurance trail. Nothing about it changes — it just stops being fed estimates.
The factor stays yours. The inputs stop being guesses.
Out · the line it returns
0.9 t CO₂e this plot, this season
The default share is flagged, and shrinks as the plot record fills.
What-if, then what happened
Model the change, then record whether it was made.
The calculator runs scenarios. What no spreadsheet can tell you is whether the practice was actually adopted on the plots you modelled, which is the difference between a reduction plan and a reduction.
- Replace a third of urea with compostAcross the 2,100 plots where compost is already produced on farm.−0.11Adoption recorded1,340 plots
- Dry on raised beds instead of firewoodAt the four wet mills that currently use mechanical drying in the rains.−0.09Adoption recorded2 of 4 mills
- Add forty shade trees per hectareCounted as a removal over twenty years, on plots below 30% canopy.−0.07Adoption recorded910 plots
- Cut double handling before the millOne collection point removed on the Bule and Wonago routes.−0.02Adoption recordedBoth routes
Deltas are modelled per kilo of green coffee, not measured. What is measured is the right-hand column: the plots where the practice was recorded, with a photograph, a date and the name of whoever recorded it.
Attribution
Attach the footprint to the lot, not the country.
Because plots are tied to deliveries and deliveries to lots, the emissions of the farms that actually grew a shipment travel with that shipment. Your buyer books your number rather than a national average, and their Scope 3 stops being a guess.
0.96kg CO2e / kg green
- Plots contributing1,180
- Activity data coverage84%
- Removals reported−0.39
1.34kg CO2e / kg green
- Plots contributing640
- Activity data coverage79%
- Removals reported−0.21
Two lots from the same union, six months apart, with genuinely different footprints. An average would have hidden both the problem and the improvement.
How it fits
Keep your calculator. We feed it.
The Cool Farm Alliance built a good one and it is not worth rebuilding. Tracebud is the layer underneath: the plots, the practices, the inputs and the volumes, captured where the farming happens and exported in the shape the tool wants. This is a programme you choose to run, not a compliance requirement.
- You keepYour calculator and your methodologyCool Farm Tool, a consultant’s model or your own: the export is activity data, not a result.
- We holdThe plot-level record and its evidenceWho recorded what, when and where, with the photograph attached, for as long as an auditor may ask.
- You gainA footprint that moves when farms changeBecause the inputs come from the farms themselves, a reduction on those farms shows up in the number.
Cool Farm Tool and the Cool Farm Alliance are independent of Tracebud, and their methodology governs any number it produces. The same activity data exports to whatever tool your buyer or auditor requires.
Upstream, a regenerative agriculture programme is often what moves this number. Downstream, a footprint calculated here is exactly what a Scope 3 Category 1 disclosure consolidates.
If you already collected data
Bring what you already have.
The plot boundaries and farm records you already collected for compliance import in bulk — carbon accounting runs on the same polygons, so nothing is mapped twice.
GeoJSON · 4.2 MB · one upload
2,847plots imported
- On the map — boundaries drawn, areas computed
- Screened on arrival — 2,791 clean, 56 flagged for review
- 0 duplicates — existing records matched, not doubled
GeoJSON, KML, CSV or a full package — templates for every format. Errors show before anything is saved.
Questions we get.
Do you calculate the footprint yourselves?+
No. We collect and hold the activity data and export it in the shape a calculator expects. The Cool Farm Tool is the one most of our users work with, because it is built on IPCC methodology and covers greenhouse gases, water and biodiversity from the same farm inputs.
Smallholders will not know their fertiliser rates.+
Some will not, and pretending otherwise is why these programmes fail. What works is recording the purchase: a photograph of the bag, the quantity, the date, in the producer’s own language, at the moment it happens. Coverage is then a number you can see rather than assume.
Can we report removals from shade trees?+
You can record them, per plot, with the tree count and the canopy check behind them. Whether and how they enter a report is a matter for the accounting standard you follow; we keep gross emissions and removals separate so the choice stays yours.
What if our buyer uses a different tool?+
The same activity data exports for it. That is the point of holding the underlying records rather than a calculated result: the number can be recalculated when the methodology moves, which it does every couple of years.
Collect the data once. Use it everywhere.
One season of plot-level activity data serves a carbon footprint, a regenerative programme, a Scope 3 inventory and a deforestation file. Collecting it four times is why none of them ever gets finished.