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Cover image ‘A crossbred Brahman calf (Bos indicus × Bos taurus) taken on a commercial cattle property in Queensland Australia’, copyright Christie Warburton, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, used with kind permission Rebecca Skene, Meldon Park Simmentals