Fadden Carbon Project

The Fadden Carbon Project is a soil carbon sequestration project located approximately 10km southeast of the town of Corryong in the Upper Murray region of Victoria. Registered in August 2021, the project covers a relatively focused area of nearly 98 hectares within the Towong Shire. The region is predominantly agricultural, with land use centered around beef and dairy cattle grazing on the fertile river flats and undulating slopes characteristic of the Victorian high country fringe.

This project operates under the 2018 Soil Carbon methodology, which credits landholders for increasing soil organic carbon levels through improved management practices. Specifically, the Fadden Carbon Project aims to re-establish or rejuvenate pasture by seeding. By introducing more productive or deep-rooted pasture species and potentially altering grazing pressure, the project seeks to increase root biomass and soil health, thereby sequestering atmospheric carbon into the soil profile.

The environment in the Corryong area is classified as temperate with relatively high rainfall, averaging around 770mm annually. The local soils are typically acidic texture-contrast soils or friable loams and clays derived from the surrounding Eastern Ranges. These conditions are generally favorable for soil carbon projects, as moisture availability is a key driver for biomass growth and subsequent carbon storage. As a project facilitated by AgriProve, it likely utilizes their model of digital soil monitoring to track carbon gains over the 25-year crediting period.