Learn more about our SecondCrop growers.

• Location: Kamarah, NSW
• Crops: wheat, barley, canola, lupins

“I don’t want to get to 2030 and have to pay a bill for my emissions just to farm. And for me, planting trees wasn’t an option.

“If I can look after my soil, we go down that path. And if I can increase soil carbon, it helps me hold moisture, get better soil health, increase my yield and then have some ACCUs – that’ll be fantastic.”

• Location: Forbes, NSW
• Crops: wheat, barley, canola, occasionally legumes
• Livestock: grows perennial pastures for self-replacing Merino flock

“The reason I decided to go with Loam was because it’s a whole package. It takes a lot of the guesswork out of our side of it so we can concentrate on running the farm rather than running the carbon project.”

• Location: Alectown, NSW
• Crops: wheat, barley, canola

“Another commercial reality within your farm, another paddock within the paddock, will be very attractive. And of course the bonus to that is that our soils improved and so we have a farm that is better.

The legacy that we’re trying to create does occur and whilst I may not ever get my farm back to the situation that my paternal ancestors had in 1850, I’m going the right direction.”

• Location: Werneth, VIC
• Crops: canola, wheat, fava beans
• Livestock: grows wheat, cover crops and vetch for sheep – prime lambs

“We didn’t inherit a family farm so what we’ve built up is ours and a lot of the blocks that we did purchase weren’t in great shape. 

“So I think we can be proud of how we’ve improved and continue to improve into the future. Healthy soils therefore healthy animals, healthy plants, healthy people, healthy balance sheet.”