A NUMBER of Senate inquiries into the meat supply chain and in particular the beef supply chain recommended tools to improve transparency beyond the farm gate need to be developed for the Australian situation.
To date, there is no regular reporting that might be said to fulfill these recommendations.
In 2013, the Australian Beef Association together with the University of Tasmania performed an analysis whereby beef carcases were broken down to retail beef items in order to determine the yield of each from a beef carcase.
They then developed a spreadsheet to calculate what proportion of…
