Mr. Dale Crammond:

I am happy to comment on that briefly. As part of the integration between the dairy and the beef sectors, it is not just the water quality issue or the climate challenge but also that piece of having better quality calves coming into the beef sector. The likes of the commercial CBV value is now going to be put up on mart boards. That is going to help drive breeding decisions on dairy farms and help farmers make better decisions. From an industry point of view, we would very much welcome those better quality calves coming into the beef system and rearing them all the way through to finish. That would be a preferable model for the industry than a veal production system, for example. One or two members may have looked at that, but it is not something we have looked at on an industry-wide level. Our preference would very much be to continue that focus on dairy-beef integration. The Department launched a dairy-beef strategy earlier this year and we want now to work with the Government to try to implement it as quickly as possible.