The federal government announced this week that it’s
investing $4 million in the beef industry.
It’s the third federal government beef-industry grant
announcement this month.
The previous ones for market development and traceability.
This one is for three projects.
There’s $2.6 million to develop a system that consumers,
packers, retailers and food service companies can use to get product
information.
There’s $380,834 to develop information systems that
will lead to crop insurance for forages. It will use information about pasture
and forage crop conditions, link that to satellite imagery and develop a way to
use satellites to gather data for crop insurance.
There’s $1,045,510 to federal government agricultural
scientists to develop computer vision systems to asses carcass qualities, such
as tenderness, lean yield, bruising, and fat colour.
