What producers told us about emissions tracking at the TSBE Workshop

Australian producers are being asked to carry more than ever: growing world-class food and fibre while keeping pace with shifting consumer expectations, supply chain pressures and an evolving reporting landscape. The question isn't whether this is happening. It's how to manage it without drowning in admin.

That was the backdrop to the Toowoomba and Surat Basin Enterprise AgriEmerging Markets Workshop in Sydney last month, where our Customer Engagement Lead, Bill Findlay, spoke directly with producers about Scope 3 emissions: what they are, why the supply chain is increasingly asking for them, and how tracking that data can drive efficiency and profitability rather than just adding to the compliance pile.

Two themes came through consistently across the day. First, producers need a straightforward platform to track and share emissions data without it becoming another job on the list. Second, there's a growing demand for a tool that can handle integrated farm and feedlot operations (one system, not several). Neither of those is

a new observation, but hearing them again from a room of producers who are already thinking seriously about the future of their businesses is a useful reminder of what actually matters in how this technology develops. If it doesn't work on-farm, it won't work at all.

The day also featured contributions from Stephen Early at Trace SCI, Robert Mackenzie from Mackas Australian Black Angus Beef, and Dorothy Dellosa from the Denmark Trade Council, covering the broader picture of shifting consumer and sustainability expectations in key export markets, useful context for producers thinking about where their product ends up and what those markets are starting to require.

Thanks to Anna Geddes and the TSBE team for creating space for these conversations. A second collaboration with a great group of people, and we're already looking forward to the next one!