Securing $4.88M to Scale Enhanced Weathering Across Key Exports

After months of work, we’ve helped secure $4.88 million in federal funding to expand enhanced weathering trials across broadacre cropping, horticulture, and grazing systems. This is a big step—moving beyond sugar and scaling the impact of basalt applications across Australian agriculture.

The project, led by James Cook University, will test how enhanced weathering improves soil fertility, sequesters carbon, and reduces emissions at scale. It’s funded under the Climate-Smart Agriculture Program and will run until 2028.

“Key markets for Australian exports are shifting quicker than we’re responding,” says CEO Andrew Pedley. “This grant allows us to build on positive inroads in sugar and push into Australia’s key broadacre and horticulture segments. We know it won’t work everywhere, but we have to be thorough and push the advantage for our farmers where it does. The priority is translating climate-smart agriculture into real outcomes that keep Australian exports ahead in a rapidly changing market.”

This is an important validation of the work we’ve already been doing—and a chance to scale it further. The next step is execution: making sure these trials deliver the data, the proof, and the momentum to shift the landscape for good.

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