Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative—Beef Cattle Herd Management) Methodology Determination 2015
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6 Herd management projects
(1) For paragraph 106(1)(a) of the Act, this determination applies to an emissions avoidance offsets project that can reasonably be expected to result in eligible carbon abatement through reducing emissions from one or more herds of cattle, by any of the following:
(a) increasing the ratio of weight to age of the herd;
(b) reducing the average age of the herd;
(c) reducing the proportion of unproductive animals in the herd;
(d) changing the ratio of livestock classes within the herd to increase total annual liveweight gain of the herd.
(2) A project covered by subsection (1) is a herd management project.