A CENTRAL Queensland grazing family has made a significant sale of carbon credits from a soil project after receiving more than 30,000 Australian Carbon Credits earlier this year.

Registered as the Jones and Blewitt carbon projects with AgriProve, the Peart family generated the ACCUs on their properties Sunnyholt and Tullumun, where they focus on rotational grazing, water infrastructure and pasture improvement across 4800ha.

AgriPove announced this morning they have now sold 10,000 of their 30,145 ACCUs to an unknown buyer.

For the Peart family, the sale was as much about sound business management as it was about carbon.

“It was good to recoup the baseline costs of getting the projects up and running, that’s always a good feeling,” said Rowan Peart.

“And it’s meant a bit less interest to pay on the property mortgage now too. I was happy with the price, and rather than wait and sell everything at once, we’d prefer to sell a portion over a couple of years. It’s about managing the risk and keeping some powder dry.

“The family found the sale process straightforward. Through engagement with and independent specialist carbon broker, the transaction moved quickly once the decision was made. Once I decided to pull the trigger, it was about seven days, a very painless operation.”

Asked what he would say to other landholders weighing up starting a soil carbon project, Rowan kept it simple. “If you’re doing the right things and putting carbon in the soil, that’s only a good thing,” he said. “

“I can’t see why more people wouldn’t take advantage of it. I’ll certainly be telling other farmers to look into it.”

• To read more about the Peart family’s project click here

Source: AgriProve