Farmers Weekly visits Blaston Estate: carbon sales and BPS

Two men examining a soil sample in a harvested stubble field with a cover crop

Published 5 October 2023. This is a record of what happened at the time. Credits are issued by the Regen Registry, after independent verification, for each tonne sequestered after greenhouse gas emissions are deducted. Ecometric measures soil carbon; it does not verify or issue credits.

Ecometric were delighted to host Farmers Weekly journalist Louise Impey at the Blaston Estate in Leicestershire. Blaston is the first farm in the UK to sell measured soil carbon from arable land and is on track to replace its Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) with carbon sales.

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