More than 50 people from across Australia's red meat supply chain have gathered in Toowoomba this week to help design the next Meat Industry Strategic Plan, MISP 2030.
The workshops began on Tuesday with the Red Meat Advisory Council also holding its board meeting in Toowoomba that day.
The strategic plan is being developed by the Red Meat Advisory Council to help Australia's 82,500 red meat businesses.
RMAC chairman Don Mackay said the workshops were the latest stage of a process allowing stakeholders to help to shape projects to drive the industry's future.
"We all know our industry is going through major change driven by new consumer choices and a changing operating environment that will make our 2030 future will look very different from today," he said.
"The big difference is the previous red meat industry plans have been five-year documents, but this will be a 10-year handbook that will a constantly live document.
"With the rate of technology, the things that we're talking about now are one that couldn't have been thought of five years ago and that's why we need the document to be evolving."
Mr Mackay said they were getting involvement from every sector of the red meat industry from production to feedlotting to live export and processing.
"The process of creating this is a bit like making a cake," he said.
"We just keep refining and refining , until we can pop all those components in the oven and bake the cake.
The programs created by participants will be reviewed after the workshop by the CEOs of the red meat industry service providers and peak councils.
In the second half of July ideas will be road-tested on red meat businesses from across the supply chain in Albury-Wodonga, Murray Bridge, Albany, Townsville, Dubbo and Longford, and also via webinars.
Workshop participants also got the chance to mingle at the Tooowoomba and Surat Basin Enterprise Food Leaders Australia Meat Up event on Tuesday night.
TSBE Food Leaders Australia general manager Bruce McConnel said the event was an opportunity for the broader business community to connect with red meat sector leaders.
"Having the Red Meat Advisory Council hold their strategy sessions and board meeting within Toowoomba again showcases the importance of the regions producers and processors to the national red meat industry," he said.
The finalised plan is expected to be released in October.
