Carbon pellet generates extra $180/ha

December 13 2019 - 6:00pm
Brad Wisewould (left) and Jack Arundel (right), Carbon Ag, with Dave Mackie, New Norcia, sampling some of the family's export hay. Hay core samples showed good colour (greenness) with some of the hay produced from the carbon pellet treatments in the trial on the Mackie's property this season, which can help attract an extra $20 per tonne premium in addition to yield benefits.
Brad Wisewould (left) and Jack Arundel (right), Carbon Ag, with Dave Mackie, New Norcia, sampling some of the family's export hay. Hay core samples showed good colour (greenness) with some of the hay produced from the carbon pellet treatments in the trial on the Mackie's property this season, which can help attract an extra $20 per tonne premium in addition to yield benefits.

NEW Norcia full-time broadacre farmer Dave Mackie has been thinking about the need for carbon in his soils for some time and after a trial on his property this season showed an encouraging return on investment of $160-$180 per hectare, he's now set to put his thinking into action.

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