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Yeah probably, without looking at tis article I can 100% see this being the case. We don't move fast enough and the government doesnt prioritise well. That said anecdotally, farmers have made greener changes in recent years. I know a lot with solar and wind and other such technologies.
Most farm emissions, especially for animal agriculture, are not from electricity or fuel usage. They could use 100% renewable powered everything and that will still leave 80-95% of the emissions.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-021-03047-7
There is not much way around the fact that the production levels and consumption levels of meat, dairy, etc have to be reduced to make emissions go down in a larger way. Eccentric fermentation (methane from ruminant digestion) alone is 30% of the all global methane emissions. Another 4.5% of all global methane emissions come from farm animal waste as well. On top of all the emissions producing animal feed
https://ourworldindata.org/less-meat-or-sustainable-meat
the owid link you provided relies on poore-nemecek 2018, which i find to be problematic. do you have another study which supports your claim, but doesn't rely on combining LCA studies conducted with disparate methodologies?