Nock Carbon Project

Nock Carbon Project is a soil organic carbon project located near the rural town of Bogan Gate, approximately 35km northwest of Forbes and 32km west of Parkes in the Central West region of New South Wales. It was registered in October 2023 and initially covered 1468.70 hectares, though a variation in May 2026 saw some areas removed from the project boundary.

The project operates under the Estimation of Soil Organic Carbon Sequestration using Measurement and Models (2021) methodology. This type of project involves baselining existing soil carbon levels and implementing new or materially different agricultural management activities. In this project, the primary activity is applying nutrients to the land in the form of synthetic or non-synthetic fertilizers to address a material deficiency in the soil. This practice promotes greater plant biomass, improves soil health, and enables deeper, more stable carbon retention in the soil profile.

The Bogan Gate area is well known as a highly productive mixed farming region, utilized primarily for dryland winter cropping, such as wheat, barley, and canola, alongside sheep and beef cattle grazing. The local environment features a semi-arid to temperate climate with an average annual rainfall of around 500mm to 533mm. Soils in this area typically consist of fertile red-brown earths, red loams, and heavier self-mulching clays.

An interesting note about this project is its direct ties to the proponent, Loam Carbon Pty Ltd (Loam Bio). Loam Bio is a highly successful Australian ag-tech company specializing in microbial fungi technology that coats crop seeds to draw down and stabilize carbon in the soil. The company's co-founder, Tegan Nock, comes from a multi-generational farming family based in Bogan Gate. Given the project's name and location, the Nock Carbon Project is intrinsically linked to the founder's own historic family farmland, effectively serving as a real-world application for their regenerative agricultural technologies.