Future on-farm productivity issues on sheep and beef industries are going to come predominantly from the beef industry. However, it won’t be the traditional beef industry. The future productivity of beef will be driven by dairy beef.
Beef sourced from the progeny of dairy cows is much more efficient than traditional beef systems both in terms of both cost and also lower greenhouse-gas production. By my reckoning the increase in efficiency is between 30% and 40% depending on the specific situation.
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