Opinion: Activist media trying to shutdown scientific debate on meat
Eric Barker, 10/10/2025
After challenging Beef Central readers with his recent article “What is the cost of doing nothing?”, Andrew Freshwater today follows up with a second article asking, as farmers, can we..Read More
Victorian beef and lamb producer Andrew Freshwater provides some thoughts and numbers based on a modelled farm in Northeastern Victoria, where a ‘do nothing’ fertiliser and soil improvement strategy could..Read More
Guest Author, 13/03/2026
The arrival of Lumpy Skin Disease in Bali is a timely reminder that biosecurity risks are not going away; they are just getting closer, and the risk of incursion is..Read More
Markus Rathsmann, 29/01/2026
While mining steadily “drips water on a stone” to shape public understanding, Australia’s red meat sector still relies largely on an ad hoc approach and volunteers to tell the $77b..Read More
James Nason, 04/12/2025
The Federal Government yesterday shocked many in the cattle industry when it announced it had done a deal with the Greens to overhaul the country’s environmental laws…Read More
Eric Barker, 28/11/2025
Australia’s livestock producers know that risk isn’t a side-effect of the job – it is the job. Every decision – when to buy, when to sell, when to feed, when..Read More
Sophia Benedetti, CFO and Co-founder, Legacy Livestock, 07/11/2025
Australian beef producers manage approximately 50 percent of Australia’s land mass and play a key role in sustainably managing our environment – so it is incredibly concerning that in the..Read More
Dr Chris Parker, Cattle Australia Senior Policy Advisor, 30/10/2025
Eric Barker, 10/10/2025
Cattle Australia head, Dr Chris Parker , 28/07/2025
Markus Rathsmann, 21/02/2025
Shane McCarthy, AgForce General President , 04/02/2025
James Nason and Eric Barker, 29/08/2024