3727 research projects
Research project
Tracking and Tracing Sheep
Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)
This project build's on V.RDA.0002 extended the methodology and findings to the sheep industry. It will validate assumptions related to the technical and adoption challenges for an implantable ID in sheep and test improvements of the implantable ID concept. Using human centred design, innovation methods and applying commercialisation expertise, the...
2 Apr 2021 - 6 Jun 2022
New South Wales, Australia
Research project
Project Cyclone: Defining insights into Australia’s global positioning of MLA’s integrity system to understand the value proposition for the supply chain (trade and consumers) across markets
Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)
By understanding trust as a proxy for product and systems integrity of red meat production, this research aims to generate insights that will support the view that, globally, Australia’s red meat integrity systems is the best. This trust positioning could be expressed in a number of ways (e.g traceability, provenance,...
9 Apr 2021 - 30 Apr 2022
New South Wales, Australia
Research project
Cross-sector Operational Biosecurity Risk Assessment (COBRA) Preparation Phase
Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)
The project focuses on a data-driven approach to biosecurity, supporting Australian agriculture by rapidly identifying and responding to biosecurity risks by providing access to real time network risk assessment (data platform). The data platform will be used to predict and respond to emerging risks, for the Australian sheep and cattle...
30 Mar 2021 - 22 Feb 2022
New South Wales, Australia
Research project
Opportunities for utilizing DNA-based technologies to enhance traceability and profitability in the Australian Red Meat industry
Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)
Co-funded scoping project with the Food Agility CRC. Genotyping has potential as a traceability technology in the red meat industry. The potential goes across live animal identification, as well as product verification –and therefore genotyping is a promising technology for end-to-end traceability and could deliver many outcomes. Yet, implementation of...
15 Jun 2021 - 15 Dec 2021
New South Wales, Australia
Research project
Trakka - Making Data Flow
Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)
Joint project with the Food Agility CRC. ISC/MLA is contributing 1/3 of the funding. This project exists to drive a critical mass of red meat producers to make available real time animal identification and tracking data for service providers. Initially this will ease meeting compliance requirements (e.g., through automated NLIS...
30 Mar 2021 - 31 Dec 2022
New South Wales, Australia
Research project
Identifying interventions to increase value-added lamb products for QSR
Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)
Lamb is generally not a mainstay item on most QSR (quick service restaurant) restaurant menus. This project will look at what the barriers for value added lamb are and what are possible processing and formulation interventions that could increase their possibility for ranging in QSR channels.
28 Dec 2020 - 18 Aug 2022
New South Wales, Australia
Research project
Thrive Corporate Roundtable – Food trend
Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)
MLA will pilot with Thrive to test and learn how multinationals from adjacent sectors respond to several key mega trends facing the food industry. The aim will be to complete series of discovery workshops that can then help MLA frame and test key assumptions to unlock higher valued opportunity spaces...
28 Dec 2020 - 6 Jun 2022
New South Wales, Australia
Research project
DTS: Diathermic Syncope®: preparation of dossier for regulatory approval
Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)
Diathermic Syncope(R), or DTS, is a new method of reversible stunning of cattle that has been developed, primarily through MDC funding. The purpose of this project is to develop a dossier for regulatory approval, which will be delivered to EU animal welfare authorities. The dossier will also be useful to...
1 Apr 2021 - 1 Oct 2022
New South Wales, Australia
Research project
Rapiscan RRT-110 system upgrade accuracy validation
Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)
Rapiscan have successfully manufactured customised imaging components and software to adapt the RTT-110 airline inspection CT for carcase assessment, with successful preliminary trials in their UK facility. The RTT-110 unit in Australia is being upgraded with these components in project V.RDP.2020. The improvement in imaging acquisition, and estimation of carcase...
15 Oct 2020 - 30 Nov 2021
New South Wales, Australia
Research project
Climate Research Strategy for Primary Industry (CRSPI) - Developing a common methodology
Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC)
This project will develop an agreed standard protocol for Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions accounting and common understanding of terminology across agricultural commodities. This will support Australian agriculture to contribute to national climate commitments and sustainability goals such as the National Farmers Federation (NFF) Carbon Neutral 2050 target.
17 Jun 2021 - 28 Feb 2023
New South Wales, Australia