Morrison Carbon Project 2

Morrison Carbon Project 2 is a soil carbon sequestration project located at Goomalling, approximately 45km northwest of Northam in Western Australia. It was registered in April 2022 and covers 110.50 hectares.

Soil carbon projects under the 2021 Measurement and Models methodology involve implementing new or materially different agricultural management practices to increase the amount of carbon stored in the soil. These projects require rigorous baseline soil sampling and ongoing laboratory testing or modelling to accurately measure and credit carbon sequestration over the project's lifetime.

The Goomalling area is part of Western Australia's Avon Wheatbelt region, an area widely known for extensive broadacre cropping (such as wheat, barley, and lupins) and sheep grazing. The environment features a semi-arid, warm Mediterranean climate with low-to-medium winter-dominant rainfall averaging around 360mm annually. Soils in this landscape generally consist of yellow aeolian sand, loamy sands, and lateritic sandy duplex soils (sand over gravel).

To build soil organic carbon, this project undertakes activities such as re-establishing or rejuvenating pasture through seeding or pasture cropping, as well as altering the stocking rate, duration, or intensity of grazing. These practices aim to promote vegetation cover and enhance overall soil health. Interestingly, this project is one of several sequentially numbered "Morrison Carbon Projects" (numbered 1 through 7) managed by AgriProve on a larger 527-hectare mixed farming enterprise. Through the use of regenerative practices like no-till farming, multispecies companion pastures, and biological inputs, the broader Morrison Carbon aggregation recently became the first soil carbon project in Western Australia to be issued Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs).