MORE accurate and comprehensive knowledge about the Australian beef industry’s size, composition and direction is the key objective in a new beef producer survey to be launched by Meat & Livestock Australia later this year.
The industry-funded project follows widespread criticism earlier this year about the methodology and accuracy of national herd size assumptions, following MLA’s and the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ annual summaries at the start of this year.
Indeed, ABS earlier this year discontinued certain parts of its national beef herd summary, due to lack of, or…