Carrick Carbon Project 6

Carrick Carbon Project 6 is a soil carbon sequestration project located in the South Burnett region of Queensland, approximately 7km east of the rural locality of Durong and 50km west of the major town of Kingaroy. Registered in July 2025, the project encompasses 189 hectares of agricultural land. The region is traditionally dominated by beef cattle grazing and broadacre cropping, transitioning from the intense "red soil" farming blocks of Kingaroy to the ironbark grazing country of the west.

The project operates under the 2021 Soil Carbon methodology (Estimation of Soil Organic Carbon Sequestration using Measurement and Models). This high-integrity method requires the proponent to measure baseline soil carbon levels and then implement new management activities designed to increase those levels over time. Specific activities for this project include altering stocking rates and grazing intensity, likely implementing rotational or cell grazing to allow pasture recovery, and rejuvenating pastures through seeding. These changes aim to boost soil vegetation cover, which in turn draws more carbon from the atmosphere into the soil profile.

Environmentally, the Durong area sits within a sub-tropical climate zone with a summer-dominant rainfall pattern, averaging approximately 600-700mm annually. The soil composition in this western part of the South Burnett often consists of solodics (sandy or loamy surfaces over clay subsoils) and grey/brown clays, which can be highly responsive to improved grazing management. The project is managed by Agriprove Solutions Co No.2 Pty Ltd, a special purpose vehicle of Agriprove, Australia's largest soil carbon project developer known for using a "digital twin" approach to model and verify carbon gains.