The Australian Beef Research experience and how it relates to Canada

There has been discussion in the Alberta cattle industry about how Meat Standards Australia, the Australian beef grading system, revitalized the beef industry in Australia. Meat Standards Australia was a grading system concept developed in 1994 to focus on the characteristics of beef valued by the consumer. The impetus for Meat Standards Australia came from the Meat Industry Strategic Planning group, a collection of producer and processor representatives, which mandated that research be performed that would halt the decline of beef consumption in Australia, a decline that had been underway since the mid1970’s, with a startling 26 kg lost per capita between 1975 and 1985 (Kingston et al. 1987). Australian consumers cited inconsistent quality as the main reason for the decline in beef consumption, a perception exacerbated by waning meat cooking skills in the general population and the rise in popularity of convenience foods (Polkinghorne et al. 2008). Understanding and controlling meat quality was therefore one of the key thrusts behind the development of the Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Cattle and Meat Quality, a research group drawn from the Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), the state agriculture departments of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia, Murdoch University, the University of Adelaide and led by the Department of Meat Science at the University of New England (UNE) in Armidale, NSW. The Beef CRC as it became known was supported by the Cattle Council of Australia, the Australian Lot Feeders Association (ALFA) and the Australian Livestock Export Corporation and received considerable sponsorship and in kind support from individual cattle pastoralist and animal health companies. The Beef CRC was primarily financed, however, from actual monies from Meat and Livestock Australia, ALFA, the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research and the Australian Federal Government Cooperative Research Centre matching funds.

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