Justin Dickens is driving his truck along the edges of his farm outside the town of Orange in NSW. Lifting both hands off the wheel, he gestures to a group of calves in a field. They are going to make “good eating”, he says, checking their weight gain in an app on his phone.
Dickens and his wife, Amy, first-generation cattle farmers, rear Speckle Park cattle – a breed that produces fewer carbon emissions and less methane than rival breeds in Australia, they say. And now they have the data to prove it.
