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Carbon, renewables, mining: Cattle Australia’s Tamworth conference tackles the big questions

Beef Central 29/10/2024

BEEF producers will be challenged to consider big questions potentially affecting their businesses around carbon, renewable energy and mining access at a forum to be held as part of Cattle Australia’s Cattle Connect 2024 conference.

The debate will be led by Colette Glazik, a lawyer by training, Tasmanian food and fibre producer by practice, and Nuffield Scholar who investigated the agricultural carbon footprint and how international frameworks, government policy and consumer preferences impacted farmers on the ground.

Ms Glazik’s report, titled ‘A Wolf Called Opportunity’, examines the value of carbon and nature markets for agriculture.

“Cattle producers across Australia are faced with a fast-changing operating environment offering on one hand the opportunity to profit from carbon and nature services markets, while on the other they are facing land access disruptions from mining and renewable energy companies,” Cattle Australia chief executive officer Dr Chris Parker said.

Cattle Connect is the inaugural conference and producer day of CA, the grassfed beef industry’s peak body responsible for driving policy, and guiding research, development, and adoption and marketing investment for the sector.

The event, to be held at Bective Station near Tamworth New South Wales on 21 November, is designed to foster knowledge sharing and encourage debate on the big issues facing the industry, as well as celebrate its successes.

Ms Glazik will be joined in a panel discussion with Michael Katz, chief executive of RELA, a firm which specialises in helping landholders navigate the renewable energy landscape, as well as Will Evans, CEO of the Northern Territory Cattlemen’s Association, and CA Regional Consultative Committee representative, Kari Moffat.

Meat & Livestock Australia managing director Michael Crowley will address the event on the industry service delivery company’s vision as it develops a new strategic plan for 2026-30, providing attendees an opportunity to engage in discussions on how they want their levies spent over the coming years.

The event will also include the 2024 Cattle Australia annual general meeting. During the AGM, two Cattle Australia boardmembers – one each from the Northern and Southern Beef Research regions – will be added to the CA board, following a recent call for nominations. Nominations have closed for eight Regional Consultative Committee positions to be elected at November’s CA meetings.

The Cattle Connect conference will also feature a screening of the internationally renowned documentary, ‘World Without Cows’, and finish with a fun and tasty sundowner with chef Sam Burke’s ‘Rare, Medium, Live.’

  • The CA conference will be preceded by MLA’s 2024 Annual General Meeting at Tamworth’s Powerhouse on Wednesday 20 November from 3.30pm. The AGM is a hybrid event, also accessible online.

Click here to Register to attend Cattle Connect 2024 at

 

Source: Cattle Australia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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