Coventry Soil Carbon Project

The Coventry Soil Carbon Project is a soil carbon sequestration initiative located approximately 25km east of Quirindi in the Liverpool Plains region of New South Wales. Registered in August 2024, the project covers a substantial area of 2,249.8 hectares. It is managed by Atlas Agri Solutions Pty Ltd in conjunction with proponents Jared and Susan Doyle, likely on a property named "Coventry" or similar.

The project operates under the 2021 Soil Carbon methodology, which credits landholders for increasing soil organic carbon (SOC) levels over time. To achieve this, the proponents are implementing changes to land management practices, specifically altering the stocking rate, duration, and intensity of grazing. This approach, often aligned with regenerative grazing principles, aims to maintain better ground cover and stimulate root growth, which in turn sequesters atmospheric carbon into the soil profile.

The Liverpool Plains is renowned as one of Australia's premier agricultural regions, characterized by its deep, fertile black earth (Vertosol) soils derived from basalt. These heavy clay soils have a high capacity for holding water and carbon, making them ideal candidates for soil carbon projects, although they also support extensive cropping of wheat, sorghum, and cotton. The area typically experiences a warm temperate climate with an average annual rainfall of approximately 620mm to 680mm, with a slight summer dominance that supports summer cropping and pasture growth.

In June 2025, the project underwent a variation to remove certain areas from the project boundary, a common administrative step to exclude non-compliant land (such as infrastructure or rocky outcrops) from the carbon estimation area. Atlas Agri Solutions, the service provider, is known for integrating grazing management software with carbon project development to optimize productivity alongside carbon outcomes.