Through regenerative grazing concepts and advanced technology, project balances carbon storage with cattle emissions.

BISMARCK (January 3) –– EcoBalance Global, a premier provider of carbon storage solutions, announced results of a first-of-its-kind proof of concept (POC) carbon storage project in Belfield, North Dakota today. Leveraging a technology-driven Soil Carbon Sequestration and Storage Framework the project has generated 4,364 carbon credits on the BCarbon registry. All credits are public-ledger based on blockchain, allowing for transparency and flexibility for offsetting and insetting against carbon dioxide emissions. 

EcoBalance Global partnered with Open A Angus Ranch to launch this innovative regenerative grazing backed carbon storage project. Implementation of the project took over three years of development, planning and training by a dedicated team of experts spanning many disciplines including ranch management, soil science, technology, AI and commodity trading. 

“We’re immensely proud of this operation that has the potential to impact such a large piece of the carbon storage puzzle. This POC not only produced carbon credits on the stringent BCarbon registry protocol, but the ranch observed a noticeable increase in biodiversity under our regenerative grazing program. The growth of native grasses, and abundant, healthy grasses, protected our topsoil during heavy rain, while our neighboring ranches saw significant runoff and topsoil loss,” said Tellan Steffan, EcoBalance Global CEO. 

The EcoBalance Global Framework utilizes regenerative grazing as a key tenant of the overall program, which is a practice that repairs, rebuilds, revitalizes and restores ecosystem function. 

EcoBalance leverages advanced technology and satellite data in conjunction with physical measurements, and digital animal tracking to exceed the rigorous requirements of the carbon registries – and ties it all together with an end-to-end proprietary software platform complete with blockchain tracking; providing transparency and legitimacy to every step of the process.

Open A Angus Ranch is a cow-calf operation on the border of North Dakota and Montana on a mixture of native and restored grasslands. They focus on functional cattle that can survive in limited resource environments as the driving force behind their herd. EcoBalance enrolled a total of 904 head of cattle in the project, tracking them across the entire lifecycle. 

EcoBalance Global is expanding its Framework program in a new partnership with KazBeef and rTek to replicate the excellent results of the North Dakota project on 100,000 acres in Kazakhstan. The announcement was made at COP28 in Dubai on December 5, 2023. The 10-year pilot project is expected to demonstrate the first carbon inset beef supply chain outside the US. It is scalable, with the goal of using EcoBalance’s Framework as a global standard for sustainable and climate smart protein supply.  

About EcoBalance Global

EcoBalance Global provides soil-based carbon storage solutions on (and in) the ground. We utilize our relationships with the farmers and ranchers who produce agricultural products, and landowners to develop projects that biologically enhance their soil, store carbon, as well as increase vegetative production and produce high-quality protein products. Our robust Framework enables the agriculture industry at large to leverage carbon storage for a better future. Through advanced technology, satellite data, and digital animal tracking, we meet the rigorous requirements of the legitimate carbon registries worldwide.