Price Carbon Project

The Price Carbon Project is a soil carbon sequestration initiative located in the fertile Liverpool Plains region of New South Wales, approximately 65km southwest of Gunnedah and 10km east of the small locality of Premer. Registered in December 2024, the project spans roughly 361 hectares of agricultural land. The Liverpool Plains are widely recognized as one of Australia's premier agricultural districts, often referred to as a "food bowl" due to the region's deep, self-mulching black earth soils (vertosols) which possess high water-holding capacity and fertility.

The project operates under the 2021 Soil Carbon methodology (Estimation of Soil Organic Carbon Sequestration using Measurement and Models). This method requires landholders to implement new or materially different management activities to increase the amount of carbon stored in the soil profile. For this specific project, the primary activity involves altering the stocking rate, duration, or intensity of grazing. By optimizing grazing pressure, the project aims to improve vegetation cover and soil health, thereby drawing more carbon from the atmosphere into the soil.

The proponent, Agriprove Solutions, is a prominent developer in the Australian soil carbon market, known for a partnership model that typically defers baseline sampling costs for farmers. The region experiences a warm temperate climate with summer-dominant rainfall averaging around 620mm annually, conditions that are generally favorable for building soil carbon when combined with effective rotational grazing strategies.