Two days at BeefEx and a lot of conversations about where feedlot emissions are heading

BeefEx in Brisbane is one of those events where you come away with a long list of conversations to follow up on. This year's edition was no exception.

The Ruminati team spent two days on the trade show floor and in the sessions, and the energy around emissions tracking was hard to miss. New reporting legislation has sharpened the focus across the supply chain, and feedlot operators in particular are increasingly aware that their emissions data is going to matter- both for their own reporting and for the processors and retailers sitting downstream. The offer of one year's free access to Ruminati PRIME seemed to land well, but the conversations were substantive well beyond that.

A highlight from the plenary came from NAPCO's Darryl Savage, who made the case for feedlots as a testing ground for innovation across the whole industry. It's a point worth sitting with: feedlots operate at scale, with a level of data capture and management sophistication that most farm businesses can't match, which makes them a natural starting point for understanding what emissions measurement looks like in practice and what drives genuine reductions.

The team also got to share a well-deserved congratulations to David Brown on winning the Outstanding Industry Service award. David has been doing genuinely important work on carbon abatement, and his approach to measuring his feedlot's carbon output through Ruminati and Greenstock is the kind of practical, producer-led progress the industry needs more of.

Thanks to everyone who stopped by for a chat across the two days. Feedlot emissions is a space moving quickly, and the willingness of operators to engage with it seriously is encouraging.