CH4 Global’s low methane beef to hit SA shelves in October, and the farmer incentive to get on board

In an upstairs function room inside Adelaide’s Coopers Brewery, there is a murmur of satisfaction and excitement among tables of the South Australia’s agricultural, meat industry and political heavyweights.

They are sitting down to the first serving of low methane beef from pioneering asparagopsis producers CH4 Global and their two Australian-based feedlot partners.

It has been a moment in the making since 2019 when CH4 Australia was founded, with a licence from FutureFeed allowing it to claim that it reduces methane emissions from cattle coming a year later.