ACTION Cattle 4 Nov

Tuesday 4 November 2025

EVENT: Cattle Connect - Dalby 11/12 November
 
The Cattle Board are presenting a panel at Cattle Connect on “Resetting the Narrative: Addressing Distorted Control of Cattle Policy”. 
 
International frameworks and corporate ESG targets are increasingly influencing the rules that govern Queensland & Australian beef production. This session unpacks how offshore finance, NGO and policy settings flow down to the paddock through mapping, compliance and market access pressures , and how the industry can engage directly to bring ground-truth and producer insight back into the process. Why proactive industry actions to set the scene itself with corporate and financial sectors is critical to protect producer viability long term.
 
It is on Wednesday 11.15-11.45am at the Rabo truck. Around the grounds, the trade show features agtech, farm equipment and animal handling demonstrations, and interactive panel sessions.

And at the end of the day, nothing brings the great people of our industry together like the flavour of the world’s greatest protein, Aussie beef. MLA’s corporate chef Sam Burke will be serving up something special at his Showstopping Steaks live cooking demonstration.

NABRC
AgForce Cattle has been attending NABRCs current priority setting process in its regions across QLD. For those who don’t know what NABRC is; it is the body for the North that sets research priorities for the Northern Cattle herd that then feed up through MLA to determine RnD investment. These priority setting sessions are key to achieving the balance between property and cross industry research needs to drive the productivity and sustainability of our beef businesses.  The process concludes later this year in Brisbane.

 
Canberra and the ABSF

AgForce General President Shane McCarthy and Cattle Policy Director Daniel Counsell were in Canberra for a series of meetings.
 
They met with Cattle Australia to discuss national biosecurity and cattle policy matters, the National Farmers’ Federation on trade issues affecting AgForce’s representative commodities, and ALEC regarding live exports. Then a final meeting at the Indonesian Embassy to continue strengthening the relationship.  Building on this years Jakarta Live export and now Cloncurry discussions with the Ambassador Dr. Siswo Pramono.
 
The day concluded at Parliament House with a meeting with Bob Katter’s team.
 
The Australian Beef Sustainability Framework (ABSF) 2025 Annual Update was launched that evening, highlighting the industry’s progress in demonstrating sustainability through measurable, evidence-based metrics. The framework tracks performance across animal welfare, environment, economic resilience, and community trust.  Most importantly, it is industry data that lets us tell our own story, and not have it told for us by others.
 
For those who would like to read the 2025 report it can be found here.