Climate, society and profit the paths to boosting northern beef

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January 14, 2020
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focus on profit over production, managing a changing climate and societal awareness of the way food is produced will be the pathway to prosperity for beef operations in North West Queensland, according to one of the latest Nuffield reports.

Originally published in Farm Online

As a 2018 Nuffield Scholar, fourth-generation Queensland beef producer Colin Burnett travelled to New Zealand, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Europe, Asia and the United States visiting producers and identifying key features of sustainable, prosperous businesses.

Nuffield Australia builds capacity for Australian food and fibre industries to be world leading in adoption of technology, best practice and innovation and the research of the 460-plus scholars has resulted in significant productivity lifts in sectors like beef.

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