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About 2.5 cattle generations to make adaptations for sustainability: UNE forum

Landscape with cattle on Bill Mitchell’s property, along Rockvale Road and east of Guyra.

HOW do livestock producers, supply chains and markets respond to fast-emerging climate and policy realities?

Through decades of global discussion about climate change and responses to it, the year 2050 has been posted as a deadline for implementing strategies.

Suddenly, 2050 is only 26 years away.

“If you’re a cattle breeder, that gives you only about 2.5 generations in which to make the adaptations you need to make to address climate change and policy change,” says meat scientist Dr Alex…

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