Research into carbon

Research into soil carbon

The Commonwealth Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry (DAFF) has initiated a $20m program to investigate soil carbon and soil carbon sequestration in Australia – the Soil Carbon Research Program or SCaRP. Dairy soils are included in the suite.

The objectives of SCaRP are to:

• Define and use a nationally consistent methodology for quantifying soil carbon across Australia
• Identify land management strategies with the potential to build soil carbon at regional levels
• Quantify the inputs of carbon to soils under perennial pasture systems
• Develop rapid and cost-effective means for quantifying soil carbon stocks (focus on MIR measurements) and measuring soil bulk density
• Provide data for further development of NCAS (National Carbon Accounting System).

For more information, go to the DAFF website

Or to the CSIRO website as CSIRO is the project manager