Beef industry imagines future transport options

Sally Gall
Updated December 15 2016 - 11:22am, first published December 2 2016 - 2:40pm
Light and low: Queensland transport operator David Scott would like to see a heat-reflecting material applied to new crate designs. Picture: Sally Cripps.
Light and low: Queensland transport operator David Scott would like to see a heat-reflecting material applied to new crate designs. Picture: Sally Cripps.

Crate construction material that doesn’t retain heat, spelling experiments, and siting of abattoirs are crystal ball ideas put forward by people in the livestock industry as they grapple with the ongoing need to maximise returns, and transport’s place in that.

Sally Gall

Sally Gall

Senior journalist - Queensland Country Life/North Queensland Register

Based at Blackall, CW Qld, where I've raised a family, run Merino sheep and beef cattle, and helped develop a region - its history, tourism, education and communications. Get in touch at 0427 575 955 if you've got a story idea for me.

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