The Beef Co-operative Research Centre at Armidale in NSW will close at the end of June, having failed to secure ongoing funding.

 

The Beef CRC was established in 1993 to identify the genetic and non-genetic factors affecting beef quality and other production traits of economic importance.

 

It has focused the work of more than 100 Australian scientists from 10 different institutions across 12 research locations in most states.

 

The CRC established and managed two new research facilities, including Australia’s premier cattle research feedlot facility ‘Tullimba’, near Armidale in Northern New South Wales.

Total cash and in-kind resources invested in the first two successive terms of the Beef CRC amounted to $146.4 million.