Tucker Carbon

Tucker Carbon is a soil carbon sequestration project located near Willaura in Western Victoria, approximately 50km east of Hamilton and 36km south of Ararat. Registered in March 2021, the project covers an area of 1433.50 hectares. The surrounding Western District region is a highly productive agricultural area well-known for broadacre dryland cropping, beef, and sheep farming. The local environment features a temperate climate with an average annual rainfall of around 550mm, and the topography is typically undulating to level with fertile volcanic loam and heavier clay loam soils.

The project operates under the Estimation of Soil Organic Carbon Sequestration using Measurement and Models (2021) methodology. Soil carbon projects of this type involve implementing new or materially different land management activities to build organic carbon in agricultural soils. Standard requirements include conducting baseline soil testing and running ongoing models to estimate carbon sequestration over the permanence period. Specifically, the Tucker Carbon project activities focus on increasing soil carbon by applying nutrients to the land in the form of synthetic or non-synthetic fertiliser to address a material deficiency.

The project proponent, Tucker's Dorper Pty Ltd (acting as The Trustee for JK Tucker Family Trust), is a third-generation farming family operation that transitioned from Merino wool production to Dorper meat sheep alongside their broadacre cropping. The project has undergone a few administrative updates since its inception; notably, in August 2022, it varied its method, transitioning from the older 2018 Measurement of Soil Carbon Sequestration method to the updated 2021 Measurement and Models determination. Furthermore, in March 2026, the project underwent a variation to remove certain land areas from the original project boundary.