Impact Ag
Impact Ag Partners describes its mission on its website as "building and preserving natural capital through regenerative agriculture for our partners across Australia and the US."
Despite having "500,000 acres under regenerative management across Australia & the US," it claims to have only achieved a "2% increase in soil carbon sequestration" and "$1 million AUD in eco system services."
The company was founded in Australia, backed by sustained investment, directorship, and ownership by the Murdoch Family's Macdoch Group.
Tech Partners
MaiaGrazing
MaiaGrazing is the name of both a software company[1] and its product, an "online grazing management tool that helps farmers maximise their pastures and profits."[2]
It does this through a variety of means designed to facilitate the implementation of adaptive multi-paddock grazing (The Savory Method).[3]
The company is a close partner of Impact Ag[4], founded and chaired by billionaire media oligarch Alasdair MacLeod, son in law of Rupert Murdoch.[5]
Regen Network Development
RND's first carbon credits were issued with Impact Ag and Wilmot Cattle Company, both Australian companies owned and managed by the Murdoch family. This collaboration formed the basis of the remote sensing soil carbon measurement methodology underlying RND's CarbonPlus Grasslands ecocredits:
Through our Pilot Project with Impact Ag and Wilmot Cattle Company’s holistically-grazed grasslands in Australia, we have found a high positive correlation between soil organic carbon (SOC) and Sentinel-2 bands.
This development was cited by RND Inc in 2020 as having inspired the Savory Institute which is seeking to "reduce costs for verification"[6]. RND's goal in working with Impact Ag, Wilmot, and the Savory Institute on remote sensing is to "automate this verification and quantification process to significantly reduce the cost of MRV" and thus "truly enable scaling the market" for credits based on the Savory Method.[7]
By their own admission, RND's method of remote sensing cannot measure soil carbon underneath tree canopy or below-surface soil carbon. Their program to automate and scale up the accreditation of the Savory Method thus actively dis-incentivizes the most effective methods of building both soil carbon and above ground biomass carbon: reforestation and biochar.[8]
According to Bert Glover of Impact Ag, his company's 2021 deal with Regen Network Development and Microsoft opened the "floodgates" for more such large deals in Australia: "we have had an overwhelming response from various sectors and entities seeking to procure carbon credits."[9]
Murdoch Ranches
Wilmot Station
Cavan Station
Beaverhead Ranch
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- ↑ https://www.maiagrazing.com/
- ↑ https://www.maiagrazing.com/features/
- ↑ https://www.maiagrazing.com/features/
- ↑ https://www.maiagrazing.com/partners/
- ↑ https://soilsforlife.org.au/farewell-from-the-outgoing-chair-major-general-michael-jeffery/
- ↑ https://medium.com/regen-network/regen-network-q1-2020-update-1d8cfc58acca
- ↑ https://medium.com/regen-network/scaling-the-soil-carbon-credit-market-with-remote-sensing-fbd3da2c1602
- ↑ https://medium.com/regen-network/scaling-the-soil-carbon-credit-market-with-remote-sensing-fbd3da2c1602
- ↑ https://rfsi-forum.com/expert-insights-bert-glover-of-impact-ag-partners/