FARMERS, researchers, consultants and industry representatives met at The University of Western Australia (UWA), for Meat & Livestock Australia's (MLA) MeatUp Forum last Thursday.
With about 120 people in attendance, the forum gave an overview on the meat market and featured several presentations on grazing and pasture management, confinement feeding, times for joining, lambing/calving and weaning, biosecurity and technology adoption onfarm.
There were also presentations from Agrarian Management director Ashley Herbert on how to maximise profit and carrying capacity, along with MLA sustainability and innovation program manager Doug McNicholl, who spoke about the industry's ambitious target to be carbon neutral by 2030.
A highlight of the forum was a virtual tour of the Fowler family's Chilwell Farms - a mixed cropping, sheep and cattle enterprise east of Esperance which spans more than 48,500 hectares.
