A review of Australia’s soil carbon scheme is showing ongoing division about how the industry should be legislated, prompting the soil carbon industry to call for suspensions of the program to be quickly ruled out…Read More
A conference intended to build alliances between farmers, agribusiness and researchers interested in land-based solutions to climate change will be held at the University of New England (UNE) later this month…Read More
Beef Central, 06/06/2025By focusing on productivity and stacking several interventions producers can transition to net-zero in a profitable way. ..Read More
Lydia Burton, 06/06/2025Livestock are still proving to be a hard sell to corporates investing in “natural capital”, according to observations from a recent ag investment forum in the United States…Read More
Eric Barker, 04/06/2025As the dust settles on the Federal Election, we can be confident that the new government will continue to prioritise action on climate, building on the policies implemented in the last term. But there are big decisions to make on the ACCU scheme…Read More
Ashley Silver, 28/05/2025Debate has this week erupted over a carbon neutral accreditation scheme, run by the Australian Government, after dozens of companies and one of the country’s biggest carbon aggregators announced they were exiting the scheme…Read More
Eric Barker, 27/05/2025Discovering how integrating trees and cattle can benefit a grazing business will be the centre of a field day held by well-known Central Queensland producers Adam and Jacynta Coffey…Read More
Beef Central, 20/05/2025One of the first Australian producers to make a large sale of soil carbon credits says he plans to use the income to make more off-farm investments and set the operation up for the future…Read More
Eric Barker, 02/05/2025Uncertainty created by a delay in the rollout of a new carbon farming methodology has been given as the reason for a Northern Territory cattle station going on the market…Read More
Beef Central, 19/03/2025A push to change the accounting of feedlot emissions has taken another step, with the publication of research demonstrating that the current methodology used in official accounts is overestimating the industry’s footprint by 43pc…Read More
Beef Central, 18/03/2025Australian carbon credit units have hit a seven-month low after the industry regulator released its report last week flagging a year of strong supply ahead…Read More
Eric Barker, 07/03/2025The book “Should meat be on the menu?” explores the widely held misconception that sheep, cattle and other grazing animals are responsible for an enormous net production of new global warming gases…Read More
David Mason-Jones, 07/03/2025