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A rural consultancy has enabled a pioneering arable farm to sell ‘carbon credits’ generated from sequestered carbon in its soil to a top Formula 1 team to offset their emissions.
Blaston Farm in Leicestershire, owned by Philipson Estates, has been at the forefront of regenerative farming for many years and has worked with Fisher German to help turn the farm into one that sequesters and stores a surplus of carbon.
With Fisher German’s advice alongside agronomists Indigro and soil monitoring firm Ecometric, it has recently produced a detailed soil organic matter testing methodology and moved to a more regenerative style of farming.
If a farm’s captured carbon is more than its yearly emissions, it means the surplus can be sold on the open market to private buyers looking to offset their emissions in the form of carbon credits.
After vigorous analysis from Ecometric, as well as Carbon Direct due diligence testing, credits were listed on the Regen Network platform. Blaston Farm was able to sell credits to the Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 team via carbon finance specialist Respira International.
Vicky Povey, agribusiness graduate at Fisher German, said: “Creating carbon credits in this way is relatively new, and the market is very much
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