The science to select livestock for feed efficiency, disease resilience, heat tolerance, emissions, and productivity simultaneously already exists. The industry stands at the threshold of a genuine transformation: moving from herd-level management toward individual animal intelligence, connecting breeding decisions to carcass outcomes and downstream buyer requirements.
The barrier is not scientific. It is commercial. Genetic value cannot be rewarded at producer level because the supply chain has no structural mechanism to verify, attribute, and share it. This session will explore what it takes to move from siloed decisions to a connected system where genetic and production data create verifiable, commercially rewarded outcomes at every stage.