Blewett Carbon Project 5

Blewett Carbon Project 5 is a soil organic carbon sequestration project located approximately 80km northwest of Goondiwindi in the Western Downs region of Queensland. It was registered in December 2022 and covers 521.30 ha.

Projects operating under the Estimation of Soil Organic Carbon Sequestration using Measurement and Models methodology involve undertaking new or materially different land management activities to build soil health and sequester carbon. For this project, standard requirements involve altering the stocking rate, duration, or intensity of grazing, and establishing and permanently maintaining pasture where there was previously limited or no pasture, such as on cropland or fallow. Carbon increases are then verified through direct soil sampling and laboratory analysis.

The Western Downs area is a major agricultural hub known for extensive beef cattle grazing and broadacre cropping operations. The region is typically classified as semi-arid with summer-dominant rainfall, and features productive, deep cracking clay soils (Vertosols) ideally suited for these types of soil carbon interventions.

This project is part of a larger aggregation known as the Jones and Blewett Carbon Projects, owned and managed by the Peart family across their properties in partnership with the developer AgriProve. The family's operations recently reached a major milestone, receiving an issuance of 30,145 Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs), the largest soil carbon issuance to a single farming operation since 2023. This was achieved through disciplined grazing management, the introduction of deep-rooted legumes, increased fencing for rotational grazing, and the implementation of precision feed budgeting systems.