Funding For Farmers
Exchange Market is a brand new funding scheme that rewards you for reducing emissions, whilst giving you control over how those reductions are achieved.
Farmers participating in the scheme earn a fixed rate of £60 per tonne of carbon (CO2e) reduced annually, with 50% of payments provided upfront to help fund their transitions.
Practices eligible for funding are set up front by the farmer, and rather than picking from a 'menu' of practices - farmers are free to create a plan that works for them. What's more, farmers who are already ahead of the curve—boasting emissions below average—are eligible for maintenance payments, recognising and helping them continue their progress to date.
How much could I earn?
How Exchange Market Works
Farmers can join Exchange Market by having a completed Exchange baseline and a recent Farm Carbon Toolkit assessment. We'll then work with you to create a verified emissions reduction plan. With annual payments based on verified results, the program ensures transparency and accountability at every step.
Start with a baseline
We’ll use your Farm Carbon Toolkit (FCT) as a baseline. Our advisory team will help check that it has everything you need. This will provide the CO2e tonnes for your farm from which reductions will be calculated.
Make Your Changes
Implement your plan and remember to keep a record of your evidence as you go - we’ll let you know what you need to keep.
Plan your
impact
Decide which sustainable practices you’ll adopt to reduce GHG emissions, with guidance from advisors. We’ll then estimate your emissions reduction to work out how much you could get paid.
Receive Your Final Payment
At the end of the year, submit an updated carbon reduction assessment. Payments will be based on verified impact.
Get
Paid
Once you sign your contract, you’ll receive 50% of your annual payment upfront to support the changes you’ll make.
Repeat
Annually
Continue to earn rewards for sustained improvements beyond your original baseline.
Exchange Market is funded by companies who are committed to supporting more sustainable farming practices and lowering their emissions from agricultural activities.
So far, these companies have contributed £950,000 to pay farmers for reducing their on-farm emissions. Exchange Market operates as an insetting fund, meaning payments go directly to farmers within the companies’ own supply chains — no carbon credits are sold.
A unique approach to funding emissions reductions
Organisations that have contributed to the fund
The fund is managed by Soil Association Exchange in partnership with Finance Earth
Example payments
The actions you do on your farm are entirely flexible, but these are some typical actions, showing example payment levels on 100Ha.
