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Summary
Visiting the first farm to receive soil carbon credits
We visit the first farm in Australia to be awarded soil carbon credits owned by Niels and Marja Olsen in West Gippsland, Victoria. Niels builds soil carbon by growing multispecies pasture crops using his invention the Soilkee Pasture Renovator. He is building top soil year on year and has roots growing down a metre in the soil. He’s feeding the micro-herd of organisms below the ground and the macro-herd of cattle above it, while generating dry matter yields double the district average.
Niels Olsen West Gippsland Farmer & inventor of the Soilkee Pasture Renovator
Matthew Warnken Founder and Managing Director of AgriProve
30 million ha of soil carbon projects by 2030
We also meet Matthew Warnken, founder and Managing Director of AgriProve, Australia’s leading soil carbon solutions company. To make a material difference to climate change, his goal is to register 30 million hectares of soil carbon projects by 2030. Soil carbon will soon eclipse other project types under the Australian Governments Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF). Good news for regenerative agriculture pioneers, they now have a way to register soil carbon projects under the fund so they too can generate carbon credits.
More info on the Science of Soil Carbon on ABC Science Show.
Building Top Soil Webinar with Declan McDonald, Register here.
Music on the Regen Report is composed and recorded by Rosie Westbrook.
Matthew Warnken and Niels Olsen on the first farm to receive soil carbon credits in Australia