Join the arable farmers earning carbon payments
Agronomists at the service of farmers for sustainable agriculture.
How can you improve your carbon footprint?
Replace synthetic inputs with organic inputs
Minimise soil disturbance
Maximise ground cover with living plants
Diversify your rotation
Integrate agroforestry
How does it work?
Yearly assessment
Each year, we perform your carbon assessment to measure how much carbon you emitted or stored last farming season.
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Storing?
Maintain your practices and continue to store carbon to generate carbon revenue the following year.
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Emitting?
Reduce your emissions by implementing practice changes to generate carbon revenue the following year.
Get paid
1 T CO2e (reduced or stored) = 1 carbon certificate = minimum 27,50 € paid. On average, our farmers are paid 8 000 € (harvest 2022).
Join the farmers who improve soil health and get rewarded for it
Many farmers are already receiving carbon payments. We are open to all arable farmers, conventional or organic (some livestock is permitted) in France, Belgium and in the UK. Our agronomists will support you in the adoption of regenerative agriculture practices.
No binding commitment
No lock in. You are free to leave the programme at any time.
Best certificate value
We sell your certificates on the voluntary carbon market at the highest possible value and you get paid every year.
No prescribed practices
You remain 100% in control of your own farm. You can change your practices the way you want.
Our farmers' results
A programme built by and for farmers
Soil Capital was founded on the conviction that farmers should be recognised, supported and remunerated for their essential contribution to tackling environmental challenges as well as producing healthy and nutritious food.
From the start: agronomists
Soil Capital was founded as an independent agronomy firm in 2013 by a farmer and an entrepreneur with the mission to advise and directly manage farms in the transition to more profitable and regenerative agriculture. This structure has been renamed SoilCapital Farming (sister company) and has experience in more than 15 countries and 4 continents.
Soil Capital programme is created
It’s the first European carbon payment programme for arable farmers
2022 :
First carbon payments totalling 1.000.000 aredistributed to 100 farmers in France and Belgium
2023 :
Second carbon payments totalling 3.000.000 aredistributed to 400 farmers in France, Belgium and in the UK
Register for the 2024 harvest year
Join the 5th cohort farmers active in Soil Capital Carbon programme
Baseline assessment
once
First assessment to measure the amount of carbon you have emitted or stored over the previous year.
Stocker ?
Maintain or improve your practices
Emitter ?
Improve your practices
Annual assessment
per ha/year
One assessment per year to quantify the reduction in GHG emissions and carbon storage in your soil compared with the 1st assessment.
1 certificate = 1T of CO2e
80% of your certificates are sold each year. You receive at least £23 per certificate.
20% of your certificates are locked in each year for 10 years to build up your insurance reserve.
What is the duration of the commitment for a farmer joining the programme?
The duration of the programme is 5 years. By subscribing to Soil Capital Carbon, you commit to an initial GHG assessment at the time of registration (“baseline assessment”), and then a GHG assessment each year for the following 5 years. During the 5 years of the programme, 80% of your certificates can be sold immediately. The remaining 20% will be held in the buffer and can only be sold 10 years later (years 10 to 15) when we have been able to verify that you have retained the carbon added to your soil during the programme. This verification is done via satellite and no longer involves GHG assessments or data sharing.
What baseline will I be paid against?
Each tonne of CO2e reduced or sequestered during the programme generates a carbon certificate. Your baseline assessment influences how your certificates will be calculated.
If your baseline assessment shows that you are already sequestering carbon overall, your annual GHG balance will be compared to a fixed regional reference (+250kg CO2e/ha for regions assessed so far) and the difference between your annual performance and this regional reference will be translated into certificates.
If your baseline assessment shows that you are a net emitter of GHGs, your annual GHG balance will be compared to your own baseline assessment and you will therefore have to improve your practices to create a differential that will be translated into a number of certificates. In this case, it is the difference between your new situation in year x and your initial situation that determines the number of certificates generated.
Does Soil Capital guarantee that all certificates generated will be sold?
We do not make this guarantee. What we do guarantee is that each certificate sold earns the farmer at least £23. This is based on our floor price commitment of €27.50 per certificate, which is £23 at a GBP-EUR exchange rate of 1.2. Future prices are subject to the prevailing exchange rate at that time. What’s more, we guarantee that you will always receive 70% of the final sales price, however high that sales price rises.We do also have a limited number of agreements that allow us to guarantee the sale of certificates for some farmers, thanks to the multi-year commitments already made by some companies;
There is every indication that demand for these certificates is currently outstripping supply. As an example, when we launched the programme, we had already pre-sold €500,000 worth of certificates that would be generated in the following years;Note also that 20% of all certificates generated will not be sold that year. They must be held in a buffer and will be sold 10 years later if you meet the loss prevention criteria.
Join our programme
You have further questions?
Our carbon expert will contact you.
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