Kilter Rural - Giragge.

Soil Asset Account.

Environmental Account: AU00018
Environmental Asset: Soil
Asset Account ID: AU00018S1
Registration date: 23 December 2020
Certification date: 27 April 2022
Certification level: AfN-Verified
Purpose: Support investor reporting and regenerative land management decisions
Current land use: Agricultural
Area: 1,605 ha
Method: AfN-METHOD-S-03

Technical Report

The Woodland Bird data in this Technical Report has been updated and is available on the Fauna Asset page.

Asset Account snapshot.

Asset summary - baseline.

Asset statement.

23 December 2020 - Registration date
27 April 2022 - Certification date - AfN - Verified
23 March 2023 - Annual Certification Compliance Report (ACCR) -
Flooding in 2022 impacted an estimated 60% of the native vegetation footprint in the Girgarre Project area. Assessments are continuing but prolonged inundation impacted young native seedlings that had germinated in the first 2 years of the project. Flooding also impacted cropland which could impact soil condition. Measurements at both Native Vegetation and Soil sites are ongoing.
12 April 2024 - Annual Certification Compliance Report (ACCR)
No significant event or material change in land use was reported or identified.

Significant Outcomes.

Soil condition scores, though generally presenting well, show us that further real improvements can be made particularly with the indicators of organic carbon (OC) and fertility (for the Pcond).

Limitations & disclosures.

Some constraints and considerations associated with base year sampling have been identified

Most, but not all the farmland was surveyed owing to constraints from weather (ground conditions) and the nature of cropping paddock activity.
With the intention to survey as much of the farmland as possible, for both agronomic and condition accounting reasons, sampling in 2021 was over an extended duration (March to November).
The benchmark condition and scoring ranges for condition indicators for this account are likely to refine and evolve in the next annual iterations of the account. This will occur with additional research and analysis, in a circumstance where true and representative reference condition soils are unlikely ever to be found.
Condition is based on a suite of physical characteristics of the soil. A direct measure of soil biological health is not currently incorporated into the applied method and so remains an aspect not reflected in scoring.

Control to minimise identified limitation - Routine annual monitoring over a multi-year cyclical sampling window will allow a more systematic and temporally consistent approach to sampling.