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Industry needs to build genetics focus on yield to address emissions challenges

Dr Peter McGilchrist addresses last Friday’s JBS Great Southern supplier conference

 

THE beef industry’s growing focus on sustainability and methane footprint will contribute to greater emphasis in genetic selection on cattle with superior meat yield and growth rate.

That was one of the messages from meat scientist Peter McGilchrist, delivering a presentation at JBS’s Great Southern beef and lamb supplier conference in Melbourne last Friday.

Dr McGilchrist, from the University of New England, focussed on the elements that deliver real carcase value, suggesting the industry had…

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