'Glentana Soil Carbon Project

Glentana Soil Carbon Project is a soil carbon project located at Glentana Station in the Buckland Plateau area, approximately 100km west of Springsure in the Central Highlands of Queensland. It was registered in March 2025. While the exact project area is currently unknown, a variation to the project in July 2026 removed some previously listed areas.

The project operates under the Estimation of Soil Organic Carbon Sequestration using Measurement and Models (2021) methodology. Soil carbon projects involve changing land management practices to actively sequester and build carbon in agricultural soils. For this project, standard requirements involve altering the stocking rate, duration, and intensity of grazing to promote vegetation cover and improve soil health, alongside converting from intensive tillage practices to reduced or no-tillage operations.

The Springsure and Buckland Plateau region is widely used for beef cattle grazing, feedlots, and cropping operations. The area experiences a semi-arid to sub-tropical climate with highly variable, summer-dominant rainfall typically averaging 600-660mm annually. Soil types vary across the region but often feature highly fertile, self-mulching cracking clays (Vertosols) and some areas of Tenosols on the plateau.

This project is operated by the Australian Agricultural Company (AACo), Australia's oldest continuously operating company and one of its largest beef producers. Glentana Station is specifically leveraged within AACo's premium Wagyu beef supply chain. To establish the project's baseline, AACo partnered with CarbonLink to conduct an unprecedented sampling effort, extracting over 2,200 soil cores up to 1.2 metres deep across AACo properties to create a high-resolution Soil Organic Carbon baseline map. In 2026 financial reporting, AACo announced the project was fully operational and eligible for ACCUs, helping to unlock new commercial value while also achieving an Accounting for Nature certification for its ecological condition.