Abstract: The Livestock Trading Platform invention is a novel confluence of software and hardware to improve how livestock are managed and marketed. The collection of animal biometric data inclusive of facial recognition and weight estimates along with a distributed ledger payment gateway and a geo-fencing system to control animal grazing locations and movements will allow livestock producers to supply livestock consumers, individual, animal-level traceability data which, taken in aggregate, will allow a livestock producers to supply a livestock consumers with whole herd data.