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Russell Nitrogen Use Efficiency Project #1

Wet Tropics

Verification

Verified · RSM · 17 December 2025

Credits available

1,564

The story

What is happening here

The Russell Nitrogen Use Efficiency Project #1 is located on a sugarcane farming enterprise within the Mulgrave-Russell 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. Maintenance of green cane trash blanket on ratoons. – All machines and implements including harvesters and haul outs will operate on the same wheel spacings. – Maintain of row widths at 1.6-1.8m – Up to 5 passes of cultivation equipment to prepare land for planting cane. – Mill mud/ash will not be applied.

Outcome numbers

What this project has produced

  • 1,937

    Credits issued

    Project is delivering water quality improvements for the GBR

    Eco-Markets Registry

  • 83

    Hectares

    Registered project area

    Eco-Markets Registry

  • 1

    Tonnes of DIN removed

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

    Multiple verification reports 2021-2026

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

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