Red Meat Updates, Tasmania

Red Meat Updates is Tasmania’s premier red meat industry event. The full day conference is for anyone involved in the red meat industry, particularly Tasmanian sheep and cattle producers and in 2017, will be looking at building resilient red meat businesses.

Red Meat Updates is an annual conference developed to provide information and inspiration to the Tasmanian red meat industry. The program is developed by a producer-led working group, which ensures the event is relevant, of interest and valuable to sheep and cattle producers.

Red Meat Updates was first held in 2013 and has been held each winter since in Launceston. Every year over 250 people attend the conference and 2016 was the largest event yet, with 333 people attending.

Red Meat Updates covers a range of production, business and supply chain topics under the themes of beef, sheep, dryland pasture and irrigated pasture. Planning for Red Meat Updates 2017 is underway and the focus of the event is building business resilience. In recent years, Tasmanian graziers have experienced floods, fires, droughts and price shocks, among other challenges. We will be taking a look at what makes some businesses more resilient to challenges and share these insights with conference attendees.