3727 research projects
Research project
A review of global adoption practices and outcomes, and recommendations for implementation within the Australian Red Meat Industry
Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)
A review of both national and international extension and adoption practices across a broad range of industries, in order to identify novel strategies/programs/practices to those currently being implemented by MLA. The review process will identify innovative extension and adoption initiatives that MLA can introduce, identifying which sectors of the Red...
15 Apr 2021 - 15 Nov 2022
New South Wales, Australia
Research project
Biomarkers for reducing non-compliance in beef carcases
Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)
This project aims to identify and generate a library of biomarkers, present in saliva samples, which may be linked to dark cutting in beef carcases in order to determine 'at risk' animals live or on the slaughter floor for marshaling.
13 Nov 2020 - 20 Jun 2025
New South Wales, Australia
Research project
Investigating Flock Rebuild Strategies
Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)
While the future of Australia’s sheepmeat industry is bright, there remains a significant missed opportunity at both the enterprise and industry level to increase supply of premium sheepmeat products to our customers, benefiting the whole supply chain. The decline in the national sheep flock needs to be arrested and reversed...
15 Apr 2021 - 15 Feb 2022
New South Wales, Australia
Research project
Accelerating sheep reproduction best practice
Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)
This project will create a PDS style adoption program that links component PDS’s to a focus farm that emulates a best-practice farm system and will include facilitated small groups that are linked to each component PDS. This project will be located across southern Australia (Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia)....
15 May 2021 - 1 Dec 2025
New South Wales, Australia
Research project
Development of DATAbank IT System for Research Project Design and Data Storage
Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)
This project will develop a cloud based system to manage eating quality research trial design and a database to securely house consumer sensory eating quality research data for beef and sheepmeat including details of meat samples collected and related consumer scores. The system will be known as DATAbank.
3 Dec 2020 - 30 Sep 2022
New South Wales, Australia
Research project
Development of App for beef carcase grading by camera technologies
Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)
This project will enable beef grading to be conducted by Industry endorsed objective camera technologies and interface with existing MLA systems. There are several objective camera technologies that are nearing the end of their research phase and will be seeking Industry endorsement for commercial use throughout 2021. There is an...
15 May 2021 - 15 Oct 2022
New South Wales, Australia
Research project
Managing growth of ewe weaners
Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)
This Producer Demonstration Site (PDS) is designed to demonstrate improvements in sheep reproductive performance amongst the Merino flock. The primary cause of this is mismanagement of ewe weaners during puberty. This is not entirely the fault of managers. Climate change has had a profound impact on pasture growth in the...
1 Dec 2020 - 30 Apr 2024
New South Wales, Australia
Research project
PDS - Alternative pasture legumes in NSW Central West
Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)
This Producer Demonstration Site (PDS) is designed to demonstrate alternative annual forage legume options available to meat producers in the LRZ of CW NSW that have not been traditionally used, showing they can be easily integrated and adopted to existing mixed farming operations to assist in meat production and adaptation...
20 Dec 2020 - 15 Jun 2024
New South Wales, Australia
Research project
PDS - Legume and Shrub Grazing Systems Adoption Trial
Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)
This Producer Demonstration Site (PDS) is designed to increase adoption of shrub and legume pasture systems in the eastern wheatbelt of WA through demonstrating the ease of establishment, complementarity between crop residues and perennial shrub systems during the autumn, with the goal of encouraging producers to sustainably lift stocking rates...
10 Feb 2021 - 30 Sep 2026
New South Wales, Australia
Research project
Optimising Pastures in Low Rainfall Zones
Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)
This Producer Demonstration Site (PDS) is designed to identify and demonstrate if improved perennial and annual pasture systems that are not widely employed in the region, can reliably fulfil the seasonal feed gap requirements for livestock enterprises and increase enterprise profitability.
10 Dec 2020 - 15 Apr 2027
New South Wales, Australia