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2020 Beef served in 2009
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- (Left to Right) Minister Tim Mulherin with Professor Sandra Harding (JCU) and Mr John Cotter (AgForce)
The Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries is delivering on a plan to take Queensland’s iconic beef industry into the 21st century and significantly increase its value.
Queensland’s beef research, infrastructure, collaborations and investment will be completely renewed under 2020 Beef, providing better outcomes for our beef producers.
2020 Beef aims to grow the profitability of our $4.3 billion beef industry and will deliver:
- a new $13 million biosecurity laboratory at Townsville’s James Cook University campus
- a new purpose-designed beef research property in North Queensland's dry tropics, expected to carry 2000 breeders, which will be one of Australia's peak locations for projects to advance beef breeding - a key driver of profitability
- an upgrade of an existing research property at Brian Pastures (owned by AgForce and leased by DPI&F)
- an upgrade of the Australian Agricultural College Corporation’s (AACC's) Berrigurra property at Blackwater
- two major laboratories at the Ecoscience Precinct at Boggo Road and the Health and Food Science Precinct at Coopers Plains in partnership with other state government agencies and CSIRO
- an intensive animal production, health and welfare research facility at the Centre for Advanced Animal Science (CAAS) at Gatton in partnership with The University of Queensland.
For more information on the 2020 Beef announcement read the ministerial announcement.
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