Cattle Council provides practical policy advice at the farm and industry level to the Federal Government, including the Hon. Tony Burke, Minister for the Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry and the Department’s divisions.
Cattle Council focuses its efforts on those policy areas most important to ensuring a sustained productive and profitable Australian beef cattle industry.
Key policy areas:
- Environment
- Climate Change Policy
- Environmental Stewardship Module
- Water and Drought Policy - Animal Health, Welfare & Biosecurity
- About Cattle Council and Animal Health & Welfare
- Livestock Production Assurance
- Animal Welfare Standards and Guidelines for Cattle - Trade
- Trade and the Beef Industry
- Australia- Korea Free Trade Agreement
- BSE Import Policy
- Livestock exports
- Marketing
- Food Amendment (Beef Labelling) Act 2009
- Food Labelling
- Marketing Cattle Transaction Levy - - National Pasture-Fed Beef Scheme
- Research, Development & Extension (RD&E)
- Cattle Council and RD&E
- R&D transaction levy
- National Beef Production RD&E Strategy
- Inquiry into Rural Research & Development Corporations
- Industry Systems & Food Safety
- Industry Programs
Cattle Council’s respected position also allows it to proactively seek out industry opportunities of national value to the beef industry that are advocated to stakeholders and activated through the industry’s red meat service provider, Meat and Livestock Australia.
