For Farmers
Soil is your core asset, underpinning business performance and future land value. It is also the only asset on the farm whose condition isn’t routinely monitored.
Soil organic carbon governs structure, infiltration, water holding and nutrient availability. When it declines it declines invisibly, and the first evidence is often significant yield loss in a poor growing season. Measuring your fields once a year, against a baseline, identifies the change and allows you to adapt your system to a changing climate. SOC change is the early warning system for the condition of your production machine.
You don’t have to hope that your soil management strategies are working. We provide the evidence. SOC represents soil health, and stock change tracks the effectiveness of your practices in each climatic year. We tell you how your soil is reacting. You decide how to adapt.
One measurement. Three tiers.
Every round is measured the same way whichever tier you are on. The tier decides what we do with it, so you are never paying for a service you have not asked for.
01 · Measure
SOC monitoring. Annual soil carbon measurement, field by field, against your own baseline, with the accuracy stated. Shows which of your practices are working and catches decline while you can still act.
02 · Report
Emissions reporting. Add when your supply chain asks for it. Full IPCC Tier II emissions calculation, reported to the standards your buyers’ auditors will use from 2027. Both sides of the ledger, what the farm emits and what it removes.
03 · Access
Credit origination. Add when there is real demand for insets or offsets. Registry-accredited project, verified removals issued in your name, sold on your terms and commission-free.
The measurement is the core value, allowing you to manage risk and reduce yield variability. A carbon credit is the cherry on top.
What it costs
Pricing depends on the size of the holding, the number of fields and the tier you choose. Larger holdings cost materially less per hectare. What sets the price per hectare.
The measurement is the same in every tier. Emissions reporting and registry work are added only when you need them.
We charge for the service and never take a commission on your carbon.
Send us your SBI number and hectares and we will send a written quote within two working days.
One measurement. Five things you can do with it.
Manage the farm
See whether this year’s decisions built or lost soil resilience, in time to correct.
Report to your buyer
Supplier-specific data to the standards their auditors will use from 2027.
Evidence risk
Measured resilience for lenders and insurers pricing your business.
Prove water outcomes
What your land contributes to holding, cleaning and slowing water, to access water company reward.
Enter carbon markets
Registry-accredited, to enable you to sell insets or offsets when the opportunity arises.
The 2026 autumn–winter sampling window is now open until the end of February 2027.
Soil carbon has to be sampled at the same point in the year for the change to be real. Miss it and your baseline will be delayed by a year, with sampling beginning again in autumn 2027.
Ecometric’s Impact
We measure what management actually does to the soil. Field by field, year after year, in eleven countries.
Hectares measured
>300,000
Projects
>250
Countries
11
Annual monitoring cycles
5
Soil carbon and next year’s yield.
We measure the same fields year after year to track the effect of each rotation on the soil. Across our monitoring programmes we are seeing an emerging relationship between soil organic carbon stock change and yield stability.
Stable and increasing carbon stocks protect the following year’s yield against too much water or too little. Without monitoring soil health, yield risk goes unseen until the next weather event strikes. This risks business continuity at farm level and food security at national scale.
Measuring does not stop a drought. It tells you whether your soil is getting better or worse at handling one. What five years of monitoring show.
Same soil. Same weather. Opposite outcomes.
Heavy rain is when soil is most exposed. Water moving across bare or low-cover ground carries carbon-rich topsoil with it, and a wet winter can undo years of careful work in a single season.
In one such year, two farms on the same clay loam went in opposite directions.
Farm 1
No regenerative practices. No cover cropping, very little catch cropping, no organic nitrogen.
SOC change: −28 t/ha
Farm 2
Regenerative practices. Cover cropping, organic nitrogen applied.
SOC change: +7 t/ha
One farm lost ground in the year that tested it. The other gained. That is what a regenerative system looks like under stress — and it is only visible because both were measured.
Source: Ecometric UK monitoring results, published in The Practical Considerations of Soil Health Measurement for Codex Planetarius, WWF, December 2025.
Can you afford not to measure?
Soil carbon loss is invisible. It does not appear in a yield map, a soil test or a set of accounts. It appears in a poor season, as yield loss you cannot explain.
By then decline may have been happening for years, slow enough to miss and hidden by artificial inputs. The longer it runs unseen the more it costs to correct.
Every year without measurement is a year of decisions made without knowing which way the soil is going. The risk does not stay still while you wait. It compounds.
See the risk. Annual measurement against your own baseline, field by field.
Understand it. Which practices held the soil, and which cost you, in that year’s weather.
Manage it. Correct it while the fix is a rotation change rather than a rebuild.
The cost of measuring is small against the cost of finding out too late.
Our Reach
>250 projects in 11 countries. Arable, grassland restoration, re-wilding and afforestation. All measured the same way, to the same standard.
Why Choose Us
Measured on your ground. Not modelled from a checklist.
We sample every site
We take real soil samples on every farm we monitor and analyse them by dry combustion in a laboratory accredited to ISO/IEC 17025. Nothing is estimated from a list of practices you say you follow. Your result is measured from your soil.
Satellite fills the gaps
One sample tells you about one spot. Our AI ties your samples to satellite imagery at 100 readings a hectare, a value every 10 metres, giving a map and a more accurate field total rather than a list of sample results.
Checked by independent reviewers and auditors
Our method went through four rounds of independent scientific review to earn Regen Registry accreditation and its own credit class. Audited by Carbon Direct and Nova-Cert, verified to ISO 14065, rated by BeZero in the global top 30%.
You keep the data
Your results are yours. If you stop working with us you take your baseline and every measurement with you. We charge for the work, never a commission on your carbon.
Commissioned by WWF to write the soil health measurement paper for Codex Planetarius, its proposed global standard for the environmental performance of traded food. Published December 2025.
Nominated in 2024 for The Earthshot Prize and the Morgan Stanley Sustainable Solutions Collaborative. You cannot apply to either. Both are nomination-only, by invited networks that go looking for proven impact.
You already test for P, K and pH.
You know your fields are varied. The headland, the light patch, the corner that goes first in a dry year. A standard soil test averages all of that into one number, and the variation disappears.
The physical samples are the anchor. The satellite never replaces them, it fills in the variation between them. This increases field level quantification accuracy to report change you can act on, rather than an average that tells you nothing about the underlying variability.
Your data. Your decision.
Kept open.
We have separated measurement from reporting, so you are not paying for a carbon project you may not need yet.
Registry submission is held back until there is direct demand for insets or offsets. That brings the cost of monitoring down while leaving the option to trade open.
Every round is measured to full Registry standard whichever tier you are on, so stepping up is a decision rather than starting again. If a buyer in your supply chain asks for emissions data, you add that tier. If a credit market opens that is worth your while, the measurement history is ready and compliant.
You own your data throughout. Our fees are for the service and never a commission on your carbon, so the timing and the terms of any sale stay yours.
Client Feedback
Andrew Mahon
Farm Manager
The Bromborough Estate Company.
“The unique thing about Ecometric is that their method is based on the comprehensive testing of our soils. As a farmer I like to have an actual test result in my hand that shows that we have increased the carbon in our soils rather than just relying on a modelled approach. As a land manager, trusted with doing the right thing for the Estate here and for our neighbouring landlord, it’s important to me that we go with the most robust Carbon testing and verification out there so there can be no doubting our results.”
Patrick Clackson
Marston Lodge
“Our aim at Marston Lodge is to balance food production with better soil and wildlife outcomes. Building healthier soil increases yields and at the same time sequesters organic carbon, getting paid for this sequestration is a win-win. We looked at various approaches to measuring soil carbon and found most were very complex. Keeping things simple, the measured, scientific and scrutinised approach of Ecometric stood out from all the others. The process has been very simple at our end, and we have found the team to be very responsive.
Michael Jarmuz
Feedstock Development Lead, Future Biogas Ltd
& Chairman of the Maize Growers Association
“After a full market review Ecometric stood out as the obvious choice when looking for a partner to deliver soil carbon projects across our business. David’s knowledge and expertise are perfectly matched by the expert team he has put together to provide a scientifically robust service that also works in the “real world”! The service is seamless and the team are so easy to work with. They understand that plans change last minute because that’s the nature of farming, but they do whatever they can to assist, getting the job done to a high standard. It’s been a pleasure to work with the team at Ecometric.”
Will Oliver
A.H.Oliver & Son
Arable Farmer of the Year 2025
British Farming Awards
“It’s been great to work with Ecometric and their communication throughout the baselining process has been great. Fundamentally we chose to work with them because their method of combining direct measurement with AI Analytics seems more robust and trustworthy.”
Andrew Mason
Windmill Downs Farm
”We felt that Ecometric were the ideal partner for our business. They’re incredibly easy to work with, and everyone we’ve dealt with has been helpful and willing to explain things clearly – which is especially important for those who are still at the early stages of learning in this area”
Our Process
Steps one to four happen every year on every project. Five and six only happen if you ask for them.
Step One
SET UP
Your SBI number and a short call to agree field boundaries and sampling access.
Step Two
BASELINE
Soil sampling and satellite imagery set your starting point, field by field.
Step Three
ANNUAL MEASUREMENT
We sample and analyse again each year, timed around your cropping.
Step Four
YOUR REPORT
Change against your own baseline, with the accuracy stated.
Step Five
EMISSIONS REPORTING — on request
Added when your supply chain asks. Reported to SBTi and GHG Protocol standard.
Step Six
REGISTRY AND CREDITS — on request
Independent review, third-party verification, credits issued and sold as insets or offsets on your terms.
Our growing dataset tracks annual change in soil carbon, management practice, yield and emissions across every project we monitor. So we can tell you not just what happened on your farm, but what worked on farms like it.
Why we stand out.
Measured, not modelled.
Real samples on every site, analysed in an accredited laboratory. Nothing is inferred from a practice checklist.
Every year, not every five.
A bad year shows up in that year, while the fix is still cheap, not five years later when it is structural.
The data is farmer-owned.
You keep your results and decide who sees them. Stop working with us and you take the whole history with you.
Fees for the service, never commission.
We are paid for the measurement, not a share of your carbon, so our advice is not biased by what earns us more.
Independently governed.
Registry-accredited methodology, third-party verification and an immutable ledger, so the numbers hold up to all audit standards.
The Long Term Rewards
Rising soil carbon reflects better structure, more water infiltrating and held, and more organic nutrients available to the crop. This is what will protect your yield and cashflow through the weather events that punish everyone else.
Those gains come from keeping living roots and canopy for as much of the year as possible, more diversity in the rotation, less cultivation, and returning residue and organic manures to the soil. Measuring your own soil is what tells you what works on your farm, rather than in principle.
There’s a reason the doctor checks your blood pressure every time they see you.
An annual soil measurement does the same job for your soil that a medical check-up does for you. It catches decline while it is still cheap to correct.
More accurate
Real samples anchor every result, and satellite and AI extend them across the field. The error is measured against samples the AI never saw, then deducted in full.
More frequent
Measured annually and timed to your cropping cycle, so change is reported in the year it happens rather than at the end of a five-year wait.
More trusted
Registry-accredited methodology, independent scientific peer review and third-party verification. The same evidence standard our credit buyers audit us against.
More useful
Field-level results tell you where to look and what changed, and our cross-project data shows what turned the same pattern around on comparable farms.
For Project Developers
A turnkey, market proven protocol that you can immediately adopt.
The protocol combines Registry Standard, Monitoring Methodology, Credit Class, block-chain Ledger and 3rd-party Verification and is open for adoption by any Project Developer anywhere in the World.
Historic soil sample data meeting methodology standards can be onboarded to create historic baselines.
New soil sampling requirements are designed by ecometric and transmitted to your sampling teams, for analysis by your certified laboratory.
ecometric hold full responsibility for monitoring and reporting standards allowing you to concentrate on project management, implementation and impact.
Ecometric can hold Project Proponent and Project Developer roles to accelerate Project Registration or train you to immediately assume these responsibilities.
‘We selected Ecometric as our Project Monitor because of their rigorous, measurement-based approach to quantifying carbon sequestration across our enrolled farms. Their methodology combines physical soil sampling with an AI-powered Artificial Neural Network (ANN) to increase quantification accuracy — giving us the highest level of confidence in our credit integrity at a reasonable cost, which is essential in the voluntary carbon market. Beyond the technical quality of their work, we have found Ecometric to be an excellent partner both professionally and personally. We look forward to a long and successful collaboration.’
Václav Kurel
CEO & Founder
Project Governance
Step One
PROJECT DESIGN
Project registered on the Regen Registry at inception.
Step Two
TRANSPARENCY
Project documentation and data uploaded to the blockchain ledger to create a chronological, transparent and immutable data trail for easy verification and audit.
Step Three
INDEPENDENT REVIEW
Project data independently reviewed for completeness and correctness by the Regen Registry.
Step Four
3RD-PARTY VERIFICATION
Project data independently audited by approved ISO accredited verifiers.
Step Five
MARKETING
Credits issued for sale. Projects geographically aggregated to allow for the pooling of larger credit volumes.
Step Six
SALE
Buyers can purchase through digital sales platforms including the Regen Marketplace and Cloverly.
For Buyers, Supply Chain and Investors
Decarbonising supply chains & de-risking investment portfolios demands measurably accurate soil performance data.
Assumed positive performance represents RISK.
Performance Risk of continued soil degradation.
Reputational Risk of greenwashing.
Ecometric’s Measure and Re-Measure, Registry Governed, independently Verified Protocol meets all regulatory and consumer requirements to protect your supply chain, portfolio and reputation.
Ecometric Credits are measured, net-negative, carbon dioxide removal tonnes (tCO2e), sequestered by each agricultural production cycle.
Premium prices
Integrity determines buyer trust and secures a premium price. In 3 years of trading, the price of Ecometric’s credits have increased consecutively year on year.
First of its kind hybrid methodology
Novel peer reviewed technology that combines physical and remote soil analysis by the Ecometric AI system to increase quantification accuracy.
Scientifically Robust
The Ecometric Methodology has been subject to a rigorous 4-stage peer review process to achieve Regen Registry accreditation and be awarded a bespoke Credit Class.
Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team accelerates towards Net Zero with investments into carbon removal & innovation.
– Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team (mercedesamgf1.com)
“Supporting the Adoption of Regenerative Agricultural Practices with Blaston Farm. Closer to home, we are investing in a project at Blaston Farm in Leicestershire where this initiative is set to inspire wider adoption of regenerative agricultural practices across the UK. We are purchasing nature-based carbon removal credits from Respira International to compensate for residual carbon emissions in our footprint today.
Here, we’re not just capturing carbon; we’re enhancing soil health, boosting crop productivity, nurturing biodiversity and empowering farmers with new revenue opportunities.
Our investment at Blaston Farm aligns with stringent registry standards, ensuring that each greenhouse gas reduction is precisely calculated. This pioneering project represents a new carbon accounting methodology which, alongside independent validation, will help us uphold the highest levels of credibility and trust.”