THE largest annual cattle industry event in the United States – CattleCon 2026 – wrapped up in Nashville, Tennessee a little over a week ago, and as usual there was a scattering of Aussie beef industry stakeholders in the audience.

Most of the Aussies in attendance came from the lotfeeding and industry representation sectors, and came back with a bunch of take-homes from what they observed.

Around 10,000 US cattlemen and women and other stakeholders attended the four-day event, supported by a comprehensive conference and seminar program and hundreds of commercial trade displays.