Researcher believes Kangaroo industry growth will have multiple benefits

Lucy Kinbacher
Updated October 31 2018 - 1:22pm, first published October 29 2018 - 4:00pm
Australian National University’s George Wilson says with adequate kangaroo meat pricing producers could run 24 kangaroos for the same meat as one steer with additional benefits of reduced physical landscape impacts and water demands.
Australian National University’s George Wilson says with adequate kangaroo meat pricing producers could run 24 kangaroos for the same meat as one steer with additional benefits of reduced physical landscape impacts and water demands.

A UNIVERSITY Professor has supported producer calls for MLA to grow the kangaroo meat industry and improve their management, saying the Australian icon could be the answer to growing carbon emission worries.

Lucy Kinbacher

Lucy Kinbacher

Editor - Queensland Country Life/North Queensland Register

Raised on a cattle property at Biggenden, Lucy Kinbacher has spent 10 years working across metropolitan, regional and rural publications in both Queensland and NSW. Lucy has been the editor of the Queensland Country Life and North Queensland Register since 2021.

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