Conference

BeefUp Forums are hosted by MLA and provide an opportunity for northern Australian beef producers to learn something new, stay up-to-date with the latest on-farm research and technologies and meet others working in the red meat industry.

Established in 2012 by Associate Professor Ala Lew-Tabor, the competition run by QAAFI's Centre for Animal Science.

In previous years the competition has attracted more than 26 participants, both research higher degree students and early career researchers in animal science from different UQ Schools and Institutes, CSIRO and the Qld Department of Agriculture & Fisheries.

The competitors present their research across many broad areas of animal science including koala healing, rumen microbiology and bovine genetics.

TropAg 2022 is a three-day conference, scheduled to the held at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre from 31 October 2022 to 2 November 2022.

The heat is on agriculture and food production in the tropics. With the global population expected to reach nine billion by 2040, the greatest pressure will likely be experienced in the world’s tropical zone which is home to half the world’s population, including more than half of its young people, and many of its fastest growing economies.

In the developed world there is an increasingly obese but undernourished population battling various chronic illnesses associated with environmental factors, including too much of the wrong food. This contrasts with a large proportion of the world’s population still struggling to attain enough calories a day to survive. The role of science in providing solutions to meet these challenges was the focus of TropAg2019.

TropAg2017 is the world’s leading tropical agriculture event bringing together the best in research and innovation, across plant, animal and food sciences.