Using flux towers and sensors, the technology developed by Queensland University of Technology and Agrimix has the backing of some big industry names.
Agritech company Agrimix has secured funding from cattle and carbon platform Packhorse Pastoral and industry group MeatLivestock Australia for a new “toolkit” that it claims can accurately measure carbon soil sequestration in real time, thus dramatically reducing the cost for farmers looking to participate inThe technology being trialled across a number of large grazing farms uses a series of flux towers and sensors that count the number of carbon dioxide molecules flowing past and being drawn...
“Currently, the cost to measure soil carbon through drilling soil cores and transporting them to a lab for analysis can be more than $30 per hectare, which makes the carbon credit market unattainable for a significant proportion of landholders,” explained Ben Sawley, chief executive of Agrimix.
Developed in partnership with QUT’s professor Peter Grace, a global expert on soil carbon, and associate professor David Rowlings, a soil scientist in the university’s sustainable agriculture program, the technology is being developed and validated on multiple properties in Queensland and NSW including onLivestock Australia and Agrimix, a pasture management company founded by the Kempe family, have funded the $3.
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