10 Key Take Aways of the National Carbon Farming Conference 2025

Last week CAS attended, exhibited and presented at the National Carbon Farming conference 2025. Bringing together the entire carbon farming sector, some common challenges and collaborations were raised. Here are our 10 key take aways.

1. A climate solution with broad co-benefits

Carbon farming helps the soil fulfill its natural function of a carbon sink: absorbing and storing carbon captured from the air. By enhancing this natural effect and applying farming techniques to regenerate soil health, carbon farming generates a wide array of benefits beyond carbon, such as increased water retention, biodiversity, resilience and reduced input costs.

2. Credible data are key

To proof and improve the fact that soil stores extra carbon, credible data are key. Data must be captured through reliable methodologies and technologies, and in transparent formats, such as online platforms, blockchained data and fully digital carbon credit systems like the CAS one.

3. From ACCU to VCM

There are two market mechanisms to sell sequestered carbon in the form of carbon credits: the voluntary carbon market (VCM) and the Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs). In Australia, projects can only be turned into ACCUs. This limits the carbon farming potential, as there are more ways to sequester soil carbon than the current list of approved methodologies, and there are larger markets than the Australian one to sell carbon credits.

4. Increasing demand demands increasing supply

The demand for carbon credits is increasing as more companies are reaching their net zero targets. However, the demand in the Australian market is not increasing at the same rate, partially because the restrictive and slower ACCU program; either ACCU must be revised or optimised in performance, either Australian projects should be able to participate in the VCM.

5. Profitability and productivity are key

You can only stay in the green if you are in the black, was the wise quote of one. Sustainability requires financial profitability of the farm, so they can invest and maintain their sustainable practices. However, it is also the other way round: an environmentally unsustainable practice won’t be longer financially sustainable either. Or the golden middle way: some farmers noted that investment in sustainability had a positive return of investment. Win-win.

6. High upfront cost, but worth the investment

A few farmers remarked the high upfront costs of carbon projects, which meant they required a long-term vision and the understanding that these projects were worth the investment …. Because indeed they did notice a return of investment, even beyond carbon credits: the increased soil health, resilience, reduced input costs etc. were noticeable. Proof: the picture demonstrating the flooded paddocks of their neighbours versus the lush green ones of his own when a flood broke through but his healthier soil and grasses resisted.

7. There is a push for sustainability

Consumers are expecting value for their dollars, not just in returns of quantity, but also quality, and sustainability, even when the cost of living is rising. Simultaneously retailers and supply chain partners are pushing for more sustainable products and the data to back them because of regulatory pressures. Carbon farming seems to tick a few boxes at ones.

8. Trust and integrity

Trust and integrity underpin all these requirements and tendencies: without trustworthy data, there is no return of investment, and consumer and supply chain partners will walk away, tiered of greenwashing and litigations. Moreover, trustworthy and high integrity inform sustainable practices and validate practice changes.

9. Technologies please

With the increasing pressures from consumers and retailers for trustworthy claims, based in high-integrity data, and the rise of supply chain emission reporting, while at the same time the need to improve productivity, profitability and sustainability at once, high-quality technologies are needed that make these processes efficient and convenient without losing quality. CAS’ fully digital and integrated carbon credit system is a good start.

10. Rubbish in, rubbish out

All these data processing and reporting technologies would have no value if they were based on invalid data. Data measurement technologies must be consistent, accurate and cost-effective. To capture the soil’s variability, they cannot trade-off volume with accuracy and precision, a perfect soil measurement technology captures both – like the Mobile Inelastic Neutron Scattering (MINS) technology of CAS

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