Fletcher's International Exports general manager Greg Cross says foreign investment is the answer to stop falling numbers in Australia's livestock industry.
Meat processors say the rollout of new objective carcase measurement technology needs to stop until the commercial benefits to industry are clear, and a feasibility study is complete.
Defence has scaled back its plans to expand military training bases in central and north Queensland, promising in its masterplan not to force any landholder to sell their property.
Online sales of branded beef could be improved in Australia with better marketing and value adding less popular cuts according to a Queensland producer.
It is a crime evoking bushrangers and cattle duffers but stock theft has become a modern crime and researchers are hoping to find a technological solution.
Tasmanian researchers hope to transform the way Vietnamese farmers raise their cattle, and dramatically improve their standard of living in the process.