How project stacking works and why it benefits graziers?

A stacked project runs as two separate but coordinated programmes on your property. AgriProve manages the soil carbon side. Verterra manages the water quality credit side. You deal with one contact on each, and both projects are built around the same grazing management improvements.

The assessment

The process starts with a combined property assessment. AgriProve uses HORIZON to model your soil carbon potential. Verterra uses DROVER Monitor to assess your ground cover, catchment position, and water quality eligibility. You receive reports covering both before you commit to anything.

The credits

The two credit types are generated at different points in the project timeline. Water quality credits can be issued annually once your ground cover improvements and sediment savings are measured and verified. Soil carbon ACCUs build over the life of the project as carbon accumulates in your soils.

This means a stacked project can generate earlier credits through the water quality project while the carbon project builds over time - two separate rewards from the same property and the same management effort.

The productivity case

The management changes required to participate - reducing grazing pressure, improved ground cover, more strategic rest periods - directly benefit pasture condition and long-term carrying capacity. The credits are the financial reward. The land improvement is the lasting outcome.

Key points

• AgriProve manages soil carbon. Verterra manages water quality credits. Both are coordinated from the outset.

• Water quality credits can generate income annually. ACCUs build over the project term.

• Better land condition and productivity are outcomes of participation regardless of credit values.

• MLA is funding project setup for eligible participants through the current pilot programme.