Carefully planned food output expansion can be achieved with minimal environmental impact, according to beef sector leaders from the US and Brazil, a country which has quadrupled its beef exports in the past 10 years.

Agri-food leaders will gain insights into sustainable food growth from international guests at next week’s Agricultural Science Association conference.

THE €9 billion Australian dairy industry, which exports products to more than 130 countries, is bracing itself for a future in which climate and drought will be the greatest challenges, the World Dairy Summit was told in Dublin yesterday.