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Feedlot Industry Training Course Development – Feeding and Milling modules logo
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Feedlot Industry Training Course Development – Feeding and Milling modules

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

MLA and ALFA are collaboratively executing a Feedlot Career Development and Training pathway. ALFA has identified that training in “Feed mill operation and cattle feeding” is a high priority. Feed mills have high staff turnover that produces costs through re-training and productivity losses by new staff whilst they reach a...

15 Jun 2021 - 21 Aug 2022

New South Wales, Australia

Goat industry data collation and tracking - Phase 2 logo
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Goat industry data collation and tracking - Phase 2

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

A critical requirement for a viable, long-term goat industry is accurate and reliable data on supply. This project will implement processes to improve, collate, track and report existing and new data. These processes will increase goat industry access to, and reliability of, data for supply and market forecasting. For regions...

15 Apr 2021 - 30 Oct 2023

New South Wales, Australia

Serradellas for new environments logo
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Serradellas for new environments

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

An opportunity exists for industry to benefit by up to $750M/year through addressing the pasture yield gap within 7M ha of south eastern Australia; up to 60% effected by nitrogen deficiency. A reliable pasture legume is required - serradellas are candidates. This project scrutinises past investments in nutrient use efficiency,...

20 Jun 2021 - 1 Mar 2026

New South Wales, Australia

Desktop analysis of opportunities for oil-enhanced forages logo
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Desktop analysis of opportunities for oil-enhanced forages

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

Feed quality from pastures and of forages is directly related to animal productivity. Higher quality forage lines will contribute to more efficient livestock. Annual forages will provide feedbase options in more variable seasons and drier climates. Specifically increasing the oil content of forages will potentially benefit livestock production systems through...

15 Jun 2021 - 6 Feb 2023

New South Wales, Australia

Pasture Dieback: evaluation and delivery of diagnostic tools and information products for graziers logo
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Pasture Dieback: evaluation and delivery of diagnostic tools and information products for graziers

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project will integrate and strengthen grazier design led thinking elements embedded in the pasture dieback (PD) research program and industry engagement activities currently underway. It will develop grazier skills and industry capacity at scale to identify and manage and mitigate the impacts of pasture dieback on livestock production.

1 Apr 2021 - 1 May 2024

New South Wales, Australia

Dietary pesticide footprint logo
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Dietary pesticide footprint

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project will review potential pesticide toxicity footprint, leveraging a recent pioneering high-resolution assessment of the pesticide impacts of agriculture in Australia. The findings will highlight the risk of environmental trade-offs resulting from substituting foods with higher climate change impacts for those with lower impacts.

15 Jun 2021 - 30 Nov 2022

New South Wales, Australia

Protein Foods for Sustainable Diets logo
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Protein Foods for Sustainable Diets

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project builds on previous research on dietary strategies required to shift the Australian diet within planetary boundaries for freshwater, cropland and climate change. This project proposes to confirm the benefits of maintaining red meat consumption at current levels in a healthy diet by contributing to micronutrient adequacy and consumption...

15 Jun 2021 - 30 Nov 2022

New South Wales, Australia

Easy P - Increasing adoption of Phosphorus supplementation in northern Australia logo
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Easy P - Increasing adoption of Phosphorus supplementation in northern Australia

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

The purpose of this integrated R&D PDS project is to increase adoption of phosphorus (P) supplementation in northern Australia. The adoption emphasis is focused on properties that have not adopted P supplementation because they feel that it is too difficult to implement in the wet season. Achieving this would greatly...

23 Nov 2020 - 31 May 2027

New South Wales, Australia

Supporting Sheep producers transition to non-mulsed sheep logo
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Supporting Sheep producers transition to non-mulsed sheep

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project will support sheep breeders to utilise existing tools and management strategies available to transition to a non-mulesed flock. The project has seven producer demonstration sites spread across south west Victoria, north east Victoria, central west Victoria and southern NSW supported by three facilitators.

23 Mar 2021 - 2 Mar 2025

New South Wales, Australia

Joining Ewe Lambs Tool logo
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Joining Ewe Lambs Tool

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

Joining ewe lambs provides opportunity to increase lamb supply and rapidly build ewe numbers. This project will leverage past research to develop a decision support tool that supports producer decision making around joining ewe lambs. A pilot adoption program will be run within the project to ensure user training and...

15 Mar 2021 - 30 May 2025

New South Wales, Australia