The Cattle Australia Board of Administrators has re-elected, for an extra 12 month time period, Garry Edwards as Chair and Adam Coffey as Deputy Chair within the first Board assembly for the reason that CA Annual Basic Assembly final month.
Mr Edwards, who has served as Chair since February 2024, mentioned he was honoured to be re-elected to the place and regarded ahead to persevering with the very important work of the organisation alongside Mr Coffey and their fellow Board Administrators.
“Over the previous 12 months, CA has come into its personal as a powerful organisation that engages with and advocates on behalf of Australia’s grass-fed cattle producers, and it’s straightforward to overlook the organisation is now simply two years outdated,” Mr Edwards mentioned.
“In that point, we’ve continued a number of the nice traditions of the cattle business’s peak business physique, such because the annual Rural Consciousness Tour, whereas additionally carving out CA’s personal identification by launching new initiatives, establishing new occasions, delivering very important coverage and proactively lobbying the pursuits of our largest single animal agricultural financial sector on behalf of all producers.”
Regardless of the success of CA up to now, Mr Edwards mentioned the Board and CA workers wouldn’t be resting on their laurels.
“Waiting for 2025, we hope to ship extra new occasions and actions; see elevated engagement with our Regional Consultative Committee representatives; and, nearer collaboration with Meat & Livestock Australia to attain higher profitability-linked outcomes from the levy funding, whereas growing and advocating for initiatives that advance our business,” Mr Edwards mentioned.
“The enlargement of CA’s actions in 2025 will see us sort out the challenges of how we higher talk to our buyer base of beef lovers the good virtues of our nutritious pink meat protein, and the constructive, nature-engaged strategy we take to managing and growing our huge lands.
“As a Board, we stay dedicated to representing the pursuits of all grass-fed cattle levy payers, and defending the sustainability, profitability and competitiveness of the meat business.”
Mr Coffey was additionally elected in February 2024 as Deputy Chair and mentioned his re-election to the Board ultimately month’s AGM and to the place of Deputy Chair signalled CA members’ confidence within the work of the Board.
“I sit up for working alongside my fellow Board Administrators as we proceed to interact in a significant and progressive method on matters of significance for our business,” Mr Coffey mentioned.
“Each beef producer has a stake in choices which might be made that have an effect on our business, both straight or not directly, and I encourage all grass-fed cattle levy payers to grow to be actively concerned in our organisation, to make sure our business’s prosperity for present and future generations.”
Supply: Cattle Australia
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