00:00G'day, Zach from Queensland Country Life.
00:02I've traded the hat and muddy boots for the business shirt today here in Brisbane for the Northern Australia Beef
00:11Research Update Conference.
00:12Now it's a packed program, there are about 100 people here already, producers, researchers, industry leaders.
00:20I'm about to hear from David Foote from Australian Country Choice
00:23and later on there will be panels on ticks, improving reproductive performance and lots more.
00:30Let's see what we can find out.
00:32The industry has invested heavily in Northern R&D with success in many areas.
00:41Why does the Northern industry matter?
00:4465% of Australia's cattle herd leave John Crowsey under solace.
00:50$4 billion in annual farm goat revenue.
00:55And importantly, major regional community economic drivers.
01:00Employment, goods and services, farm inputs, education.
01:07It drives the bush.
01:09Sir, we're here at the NAVRAC conference in a break.
01:12Let's keep moving.
01:13Dan Fruit, formerly of ACC, still on the board has just hit attendees between the eyes.
01:18Now in a room with a lot of researchers out of the 300, about 100 producers.
01:24Most of the researchers have said, look, there's already enough knowledge out there in the beef industry.
01:30Plenty of research, plenty of findings.
01:32The big challenge now is getting them to good useless hands and making it productive.
01:36So when we think about the beef CRC, the impact that had across the industry.
01:41We think about cash cow and probably the Wambiana trial.
01:46There's three big projects that were, you know, long-term type projects that, and I think it sort of touched
01:54on the piece that I mentioned before about then there's enough trust in.
01:57You know, like, how do you tell what a rangeland's going to do after a three year R&D project?
02:02You know, like, that's the...
02:04So I guess the question for you, Serge, what's the appetite within the MLA funding to, you know, get involved
02:14in some of these longer 10 year plus research projects?
02:17There's about 20 million cattle in this farm in the United States.
02:21So not that basic.
02:22But of those, about 40% of them graze at least some of the time on public lands, the elementary
02:28foresters.
02:29So that's...
02:31Public lands and public land grazing is a big part of the Western U.S. livestock industry.
02:37And the issue is, that you guys all know it, is that rough terrain, steep slopes, high elevation, long distances
02:44from water, because a lot of this area we don't have that many bores.
02:46Is there any cattle that will walk along the way?
02:48So that makes the grazing not even.
02:50Is it not even?
02:51And so that can cause a lot of concern.
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