Greg BrownGreg Brown is a beef cattle producer from Mt Garnet in North Queensland. Greg and his wife fatten their predominantly Brahman herd on their property, “Meadowbank”.
Greg is a strong advocate for the systems underpinning Australia’s beef industry, in particularly, Meat Standards Australia (MSA), a national quality assurance meat grading program and powerful marketing tool available to all Australian beef cattle producers. Greg places strong emphasis on the industry to deliver to producers accessible tools that improve their on-farm profitability.
For the past four years, Greg has candidly represented beef producers both in Queensland and Nationally on a number of challenging issues that continue to impact our industry. Some of these include drought policy, climate change and increasing on-farm input costs.
Greg’s election as President of the Cattle Council in November 2008 will continue his involvement of over 30 years in agri-politics. His focus now is representing the broad interests of cattle producers from all States and Territories across Australia, in the development of useful and robust policy that will ensure the future profitability of our industry.
Read OUTBACK magazines profile piece on Greg Brown.
Read Greg Brown's columns for Queensland Country Life newspaper:
2010
10.03.10 Importance of BSE policy change
2009
24.11.09 Beef producers in the driver's seat
17.11.09 Beef producers out of the 'CPRS cattle crush'
26.10.09 Rural Awareness Tour educates Government on the big beef issues
20.07.09 Questionnaires to benefit beef industry
15.06.09 Beef producers get involved and be heard
28.04.09 Beef Marketing Levy - Have your say
12.02.09 Grass Fed Beef plan welcomed
15.12.08 Leading the way with Meat Industry Strategic Plan