Welcome to episode 13 of the MLA Productivity and Profitability media series. This episode features Callen Thompson from AgSTAR Projects. Callen talks about growing beef from dairy, the benefits, barriers and next steps for the industry. 

Your host, Tanisha Shields and Callen discuss the importance of relationships and understanding what the end user of your product wants. Callen highlights the benefits of dairy beef, including carbon emissions, eating quality and consistency of supply. Beef and dairy producers looking to get involved in the Dairy-Beef supply chain need to breed, feed and manage their calves with their end market in mind. 

To take advantage of these opportunities we will need to address several barriers including increasing capacity to rear calves, developing a greater understanding of market specifications for both beef and dairy producers and producing an animal that consistently meets market specifications.

To watch our webinar with Callen head to: Productivity & Profitability series | Meat & Livestock Australia (mla.com.au)

To find out about the Growing Beef from Dairy project Callen mentioned head to: Growing Beef from Dairy | Meat & Livestock Australia (mla.com.au)
This project is funded 50:50 by Meat and Livestock Australia and Dairy Australia. 

To sign up to receive updates on this project head to: Growing Beef from Dairy - Industry engagement survey (office.com) 

This episode is brought to you by Agrista in partnership with Meat and Livestock Australia.