AUSTRALIA’S strong livestock sustainability story was shared during the first Global Conference on Sustainable Livestock, staged in Rome this week by the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation.
The Federal Government’s agriculture trade group deputy secretary, Nicola Hinder, told the conference the Australian red meat industry had reduced emissions by 65 percent since 2005, and our grain and grassfed beef farms were below the global median for emissions intensity.
Ms Hinder also noted the diversity in agricultural contexts regarding sustainability must be…