Skip to content
Eco-Markets.
Credit-issuing

Johnstone Nitrogen Use Efficiency Project #3

Wet Tropics

Verification

Verified · RSM · 21 August 2025

Credits available

1,382

The story

What is happening here

The Johnstone Nitrogen Use Efficiency Project #3 is located on a sugarcane farming enterprise within the Johnstone River Catchment, which drains to the Great Barrier Reef. This Reef Credit Project has been developed in a partnership between GreenCollar and the land manager. The Project generates Reef Credits under the Method for Accounting Reduction in Nutrient Runoff through Managed Fertiliser Application Version 1.1. through (but not limited to) the following project activities: – Efficient nitrogen fertiliser application – Maintenance of green cane trash blanket including as fallow cover on final ratoon. – All machines and implements including harvesters and haul outs will operate on the same wheel spacings. – Maintain of row widths at 1.8-2.0m – Intention to plant all sugarcane fallow land to legumes or alternate crops, without tillage prior to planting. – Zonal tillage only with no more than 60% of the area cultivated.

Outcome numbers

What this project has produced

  • 7,132

    Credits issued

    Project is delivering water quality improvements for the GBR

    Eco-Markets Registry

  • 235

    Hectares

    Registered project area

    Eco-Markets Registry

  • 7

    Tonnes of DIN removed

    Quantified and verified mass of nitrogen prevented from running onto the GBR

    Multiple verification reports 2021-2025

The Chain

Where this credit comes from

Pulled from this project’s own record. Every step is a live link — the provenance, walked.

  1. Reef Credit Standard

    The standard. Outcome: Water.

  2. Managed Fertiliser Application v1.1

    The methodology version this outcome was produced under.

  3. Reef Credits

    The credit type this project issues.

  4. Credit

    The verified unit itself. Held immutably in the Credit Registry, never on this website.

Who’s involved

Verifiers, Auditors and Approved Operators

RSM

Documents

The rules behind this project

Related

Other projects issuing these credits