Take: Biochar in agriculture: Can biochar benefit livestock - Melissa Rebeck

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0000

Take on a YouTube video from Local Land Services NSW, originally posted 2026-07-20. Watch the source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nuk18apLFWI

TL;DR

Speaker claims Australian biochar carbon sells at ~AUD $200/tonne on voluntary markets — higher than what an ACCU method would pay. Useful pricing datapoint.
ANZBIG targets 50 million tonnes of biomass pyrolysed annually: $6B biochar + $3B removals + $1-2B energy. Aspirational, no timeline given.
Energy co-product pitch: $300-400k in thermal energy value per ~5,000 tonnes of biomass processed (she states the ratio inconsistently in the talk).
Title says livestock; the transcript is almost entirely production economics and industry advocacy. Feed applications barely appear in this segment.

Melissa Rebeck — chair of the Australian New Zealand Biochar Industry Group (ANZBIG) and business development lead at pyrolysis equipment vendor Metamorph Engineering — presents to a Local Land Services NSW farmer audience on biochar production economics. Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nuk18apLFWI. Despite the title, this is a talk about the business case for on-farm pyrolysis, not livestock feed trials.

Take: Biochar in agriculture: How can biochar create opportunities in the carbon market? - Emily Wilson

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0000

Take on a YouTube video from Local Land Services NSW, originally posted 2026-07-20. Watch the source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx6J74S07xk

TL;DR

Australia still has no domestic biochar carbon method; producers must use international registries like Puro.earth. Practical confirmation from a state advisor, not news.
Cited spread: biochar credits at ~AU$150–200/tonne vs Australian Carbon Credit Units at ~AU$40–50. Useful anchor for Australian project economics.
Biochar application is eligible inside Australian soil carbon projects — but capped at 100 kg/ha/yr unless biomass is on-farm or from a designated waste stream.
Applied biochar carbon must be deducted from measured soil carbon stock gains. A detail many farm-facing biochar pitches skip.
Registration walkthrough (additionality, EPA compliance, end-use traceability) is basic but accurate.

This is a five-minute talk by Emily Wilson, natural capital adviser at Local Land Services NSW, given at a farmer-facing biochar event funded under a NSW decarbonisation program. It’s an extension talk, not a technical presentation — but it’s a reasonably precise snapshot of how biochar intersects with Australian carbon crediting right now. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx6J74S07xk.

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Take: Biochar in agriculture: Can biochar benefit livestock - Melissa Rebeck

Take: Biochar in agriculture: How can biochar create opportunities in the carbon market? - Emily Wilson