An Australian farmer has held the first carbon-neutral cattle sale – here’s how it works

Macka's Pastoral’s carbon-neutral breeding cattle in Gloucester, NSW. Farmer Robert MacKenzie uses soil carbon sequestration to offset greenhouse gas emissions. Photograph: Macka's Pastoral

Australia’s first carbon-neutral cattle sale took place this week.

Seven hundred Angus breeding cows and heifers, reared through a “carbon-neutral farming system”, went under the hammer at the saleyards in Gloucester, a small town three hours’ drive from Sydney, on Thursday.