Viner Carbon Project

Viner Carbon Project is a soil carbon project located at Wooroolin, approximately 17 km north of Kingaroy in the South Burnett Region of Queensland. It was registered in April 2022 and covers 64.75 hectares. The broader Kingaroy and South Burnett area is widely known for its rich agricultural land use, including intensive cattle grazing, dairy farming, and broadacre cropping such as peanuts. The local environment generally experiences a moderate, subtropical rainfall climate and features highly fertile, deeply weathered red structured soils and basalts, making it well-suited for diverse agricultural and grazing operations.

Soil carbon projects operating under the Estimation of Soil Organic Carbon Sequestration using Measurement and Models methodology involve initially baselining the existing soil carbon levels, implementing new eligible land management activities to build soil carbon, and subsequently re-measuring and modeling the increases to earn carbon credits. For this specific project, the management requirements include altering the stocking rate, duration, or intensity of grazing to promote soil vegetation cover and improve health, applying synthetic or non-synthetic nutrients to address material soil deficiencies, and re-establishing or rejuvenating pastures through specialized seeding or pasture cropping.

Owned and managed by Jeff Bell in partnership with AgriProve, the project is a striking example of the benefits of regenerative agriculture. Jeff transformed the property from four main paddocks into an intensive 35-paddock rotational grazing system, investing approximately $13,000 in new water infrastructure and almost 10 kilometers of single-wire electric fencing. By incorporating multi-species pasture seeding (including species like lucerne, sunn hemp, and tillage radish), biological foliar applications, and chemical-free livestock management, the property’s carrying capacity increased from 52 to 59 stock days per hectare per 100mm of rainfall. Because of these dedicated, hands-on management practices and an early commitment to baselining, the Viner Carbon Project recently reached a significant milestone, successfully generating and being issued 2,509 Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs).