It’s said if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. So why is it that Australia’s grass-fed beef industry, now valued by more than $20 billion, and producing 3 million tons a year, largely reliant on volunteers to represent the industry. That’s the question being put to the industry by Cattle Australia Chair and NSW beef producer Garry Edwards.

Let's take a look at livestock markets with RMA Network livestock analyst Chris Howie.

Australia’s beef industry is in the process of developing a national multibreed genetic evaluation platform. But the single most dominant breed Angus doesn’t want to play ball.

The CSIRO has looked at current and emerging tools to reduce the on-farm greenhouse gas emissions of the Australian agricultural sector.