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Soil organic carbon measurement has concluded on Million Acre Challenge farms across Southwestern Ontario, marking a major milestone in recognizing and rewarding farmers practicing climate-smart agriculture. The testing, carried out by Agricarbon, is part of the Million Acre Challenge Program, an initiative designed by CANZA to reduce the financial risk of adopting practices that lower emissions, improve soil health, and preserve water quality. Agricarbon will return to the same fields in three years to measure the change in soil organic carbon levels over time. The end result will provide concrete evidence of the impacts from sustained regenerative practices. We’re excited for the future of the program, with this data assisting farmers, markets and policymakers in understanding and rewarding climate-smart agriculture. https://lnkd.in/eN_KBkfK

🚀 Kim ten Wolde is bringing Agricarbon to the World Agri-Tech South America Summit! Agricarbon provides the soil carbon measurement infrastructure behind high-integrity regenerative agriculture, supply chain, and carbon market programmes worldwide. The scale-up combines statistically robust sampling design, mechanised deep-core collection, and industrialised laboratory analysis to deliver rigorous, audit-grade soil carbon data at scale. Agricarbon's data underpins the largest issuance of soil carbon credits worldwide, with over 33,000 fields measured across 22+ countries to date. Meet the Kim and the team behind Agricarbon in São Paulo on June 23-24. See the full start-up arena lineup so far: https://lnkd.in/eipTHrXu ____________ 🧬 Are you building an agtech company with plans to scale in South America? Speak with our tech scouts to put your solution in front of investors, corporates, and R&D collaborators. Apply now: https://lnkd.in/ec53xzt8

The integrity bar is rising for soil carbon projects. 🚀 With the release of the Verra's Draft Soil Sampling and Analysis Handbook, the industry is moving towards a more standardized, statistically rigorous framework for quantifying carbon removals. Today’s webinar with leaders from Agricarbon, ChrysaLabs, Regrow Ag, Perennial and Seqana highlighted that we are moving towards a new era of trust and transparency. Here are the key takeaways for project developers and investors: 1. The "Economic Optimum Number of Samples": The handbook introduces the Economic Optimum Number of Samples (EONS), a concept that balances the cost of sampling against the financial value of reduced uncertainty deductions. 2. A Baseline is for Life, Not Just for Christmas Annie Leeson hit the nail on the head: your initial measurement sets the trajectory for the entire crediting period. 3. Precision Through Digital Soil Mapping (DSM) By combining spatial SOC predictions with environmental covariates, developers can significantly reduce variance and, consequently, their uncertainty deductions. 4. De-risking 5-10 Years Down the Line How do you ensure a project is still viable a decade from now? Reproducibility & Traceability: Following strict Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for everything from core extraction to lab analysis is non-negotiable. Transparent Validation: Jim Kellner emphasized that trust stems from public verification of outcomes and clear validation pathways. Rigor Over Specific Tech: Scott Dickson Dagondon reminded us that it’s not about one technology over another, but finding what is most rigorous and fits the specific soil conditions. The Bottom Line: Collaboration is Key Wiebke Schulz noted that for project developers, it can be difficult to get a complete overview of this complex, fast changing landscape. The solution? Find good partners. The soil carbon market is maturing. By prioritizing scientific rigor today, we de-risk the climate solutions of tomorrow. 🌍🌱 What other sampling challenges should the handbook address, particularly around spatial variability and long-term reproducibility across different soil types and management systems? #SoilCarbon #RegenerativeAg #ClimateTech #Verra #Sustainability #CarbonMarkets

🚨 Join us for ISCIA’s second webinar of the year! As soil carbon markets evolve, strong science and credible measurement remain at the core, but just as important are the people driving this work forward. This session highlights not only cutting-edge approaches to soil organic carbon (SOC) measurement, but also the experts shaping the field. 🎙️Moderator: William Salas, Bill brings over 30 years of experience across environmental science and business leadership, including roles at NASA JPL, the University of New Hampshire, and AGS. He is widely recognized for his expertise in remote sensing and biogeochemical modeling. Regrow Ag 🎙️ Panelists: Scott Dickson Dagondon is Head of Data Science at ChrysaLabs, where he leads the development of scalable solutions for soil carbon measurement using in-field spectroscopy and advanced analytics. With 14+ years in data science and applied AI, he focuses on turning complex environmental data into robust, defensible indicators for climate solutions. Wiebke Schulz is Certification Manager at ReGeneration 🌱, working at the intersection of science, methodology, and field implementation with a focus on robust MRV systems. She is also an active member of ISCIA’s Science and Policy Committee, closely following developments in Verra methodologies and land sector standards. Jim Kellner is Chief Scientist at Perennial and Professor at Brown University, with deep expertise in remote sensing and digital soil mapping. He also led the development of Verra’s VT0014 tool for estimating carbon stocks using Digital Soil Mapping. Julian Kremers is Co-Founder and CSO at Seqana, bringing deep expertise in remote sensing and environmental modelling to SOC MRV at scale. He has been a key contributor to Verra’s VM0042 v3 update, the SSA Handbook, and the EU Carbon Removal Certification Framework, and serves on ISCIA’s Board of Directors. Annie Leeson is the Co-Founder and CEO of Agricarbon, providing a direct measurement of soil carbon stock. Together, they’ll explore how science, technology, and real-world experience are converging to shape the future of SOC measurement. If you’re working or interested in soil carbon markets this is a conversation you won’t want to miss. 👉 Register now: https://lnkd.in/euByVJBi 📅 May 7, 2026 | 🕒 11:00 AM (ET) #SoilCarbon #CarbonMarkets #VM0042 #RegenerativeAgriculture #MRV

Just before I had to get on stage at RegenNYC, one sentence in Klaus’s opening remarks stopped me: “In nature, nothing happens on its own. Everything is connected in a web of interactions. Nothing can be changed without having an effect on something else.” It made me think about what working in nature-based solutions teaches you about complexity even when your job focuses on a tiny sliver of it. Us technical people are wired to isolate a problem and solve it. And we’ve achieved extraordinary things that way, massive gains in milk yield per cow, the ability to boost harvests by working the fields harder. But those approaches often come at a cost we only see later. Mineral fertiliser that makes soil hostile to microbes. Pests we eradicate without realising the birds needed them. Livestock concentrated for efficiency while losing the connection to the land where they’re crucial for soil health. Change is slow in nature, and we have to learn to pace ourselves. When it comes to carbon removal through regenerating the land, we cannot rush it. And we can’t afford a myopic focus on carbon alone. The true impact I want to see is the restoration of our soils — making sure our food system is grounded in a thriving system that supports life and diversity, not just a growing medium. The farmers we work with see it firsthand: when soils are healthy, everything works better. Water gets absorbed and buffered. Birds, butterflies and bees come back. It becomes a system of abundance rather than extraction. What if the simplest solution is to surrender to nature a bit more? Let the reins loose. Let time do its thing. I’m hopeful, especially after this week. To see the energy and optimism in that room, to finally meet people I’ve been following on LinkedIn for years and shake their hand, to have real conversations off stage that went deeper than any panel could. Had the privilege of hosting a panel on trusting soil carbon outcomes with Christopher Gergen, Kevin Silverman, and Paige Meyer — Christopher was a star as moderator and kept it sharp and honest and the audience was engaging! Meeting John and Emmet from SLM Partners, Paloma Lopez from Bel, Elizabeth from Mad Agriculture, and making new friends like Doug, Brittany, Elizabeth and Jean, and of course meeting up in-person with my US colleagues Pierre and Jackson made the trip. And I have to say — the fact that this Why Regenerative series was built from scratch by such a young and driven team is something else. Jackson, Cortlandt Meyerson, and the crew brought together real substance with real participation. The future of this space is in good hands. The early morning runs along the Brooklyn waterfront and in Prospect Park didn’t hurt either. More of this. Less slides, more real conversations. #regenerativeNYC #regenerativeagriculture #soilhealth

𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝗼𝗶𝗹 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗼𝗻 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁, 𝘆𝗼𝘂’𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀. 𝗜’𝗺 𝗻𝗼𝘁. Next Thursday at Why Regenerative’s #RegenerativeNYC, one of the statements up for debate on our panel: “Models are currently oversold.” I won’t bash models. But I will call out approaches without a foundation. Models are how we scale credible carbon removals — a brand with thousands of growers needs an answer in an annual reporting cycle, not a decade. We can’t do without them. But as Yale’s Mark Bradford and colleagues put it in a white paper with EDF: being approximately correct is preferred to being precisely wrong. A model is only as good as the data underneath it. Thin ground-truth, confident output, story dressed up as evidence. The fix isn’t less modelling, but having a solid foundation. Joining me: Paige Meyer (ESMC), Kevin Silverman (Cultivo), moderated by Christopher Gergen (Regenerative Organic Alliance). If you’re in New York next week and want to talk soil carbon, drop me, Jackson Baris or Pierre Kim from the Agricarbon team a DM! #RegenerativeNYC #SoilCarbon #MRV #WhyRegenerative #RegenerativeAgriculture