Prime lamb producer Lu Hogan has been elected to the board of Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA).
Ms Hogan, who was elected to the skills-based MLA Board as a sheep meat production expert, is a UNE alum and the university’s Associate Director Climate Resilience Initiatives.
“I think as producers, we are realising that our lived experience of climate variability is just a taste of what’s to come,” Ms Hogan said.
“We have a new reality to contend with, including rapidly varying conditions, extreme events as well as evolving consumer expectations.
“The whole red meat industry is going to have to put in the work, not only to meet industry goals to be carbon neutral by 2030, but to reassure our consumers – here and overseas – that Australian red meat remains a healthy, sustainable menu item.”
Ms Hogan has devoted her entire career to working in Australian agriculture as a livestock and grain producer, manager of research and development and deliverer of skills and training to farmers across Australia.
She and her husband previously part-owned and managed a large-scale sheep and irrigated grain production business in western NSW and currently breed prime lamb and trade beef on the Northern Tablelands of NSW.
Throughout her career Ms Hogan has worked in a range of research organisations including CSIRO, Victorian Department of Agriculture, Australian Wool Innovation, Sheep Cooperative Research Centre, and UNE where she has managed large research and development projects and designed and delivered national training and extension programs particularly related to sheep production and climate resilience.
