Romani Carbon Project

Romani Carbon Project is a soil carbon project located in the Forbes local government area, approximately 27km south of Forbes in the Central West region of New South Wales. It was registered in July 2024 and initially covers an area of 830.24 hectares. A variation to the project area occurred in October 2025, removing some originally listed areas from the project boundaries.

The project operates under the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative-Estimation of Soil Organic Carbon Sequestration using Measurement and Models) Methodology Determination 2021. Soil carbon projects involve implementing new or materially different agricultural management practices to build soil organic carbon, quantifying the sequestered carbon over time through a stringent baseline and subsequent soil sampling process (measurements) alongside predictive modeling.

The Forbes area is situated in a major broadacre cropping and mixed farming region, highly regarded for producing cereals, pulses, canola, and livestock. The local environment features a moderate, stable annual rainfall pattern, and the region's soils are predominantly Chromosols, which are characterized by a sandy loam or loam topsoil over a clay subsoil. To achieve soil carbon increases in this environment, the project's direct activities focus on applying nutrients to the land in the form of synthetic or non-synthetic fertiliser to address a material deficiency in the agricultural system.

The project proponent is Loam Carbon Pty Ltd, a subsidiary of Loam Bio. Founded in the nearby regional hub of Orange, NSW, Loam Bio is a rapidly growing agricultural technology startup. The company specializes in microbial technologies, such as their CarbonBuilder seed inoculum, which leverages fungi and microbes to capture carbon from the atmosphere and store it long-term in the soil, effectively allowing farmers to boost productivity while participating in carbon markets.