In 2018, thirteen percent of Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions came from agriculture. Red meat producers have a target of zero emissions by 2030. The National Farmers’ Federation is working towards zero by 2050. So how will this be achieved? Alexandra de Blas dives deep into the soil to explore soil carbon and the creatures that build it. She also examines Australia’s potential to drawdown carbon out of the air where it is a problem to store it in the soil where it is an asset for farmers.

Farmer Niels Olsen with AgriProve’s Matthew Warnken in a mixed-species forage crop building soil carbon on the first farm in Australia to be issued with carbon credits for soil carbon.