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Boosting lamb survival by supplementing logo
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Boosting lamb survival by supplementing

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project will establish producer demonstration sites across southern Australia to validate the results of a previous small-scale experiment, which has shown that supplementing ewes during late pregnancy with vitamin D or Plus selenium may improve lamb survival by up to10%. Ewes will also be tested for vitamin D, E...

28 Jan 2018 - 15 Nov 2023

New South Wales, Australia

Murdoch University

The nutritive value of modern crop stubble logo
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The nutritive value of modern crop stubble

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

A recent scoping study found that modern crop stubbles are notoriously variable in quality, with non-cereal crops even more variable. This project will provide farmers with up-to-date digital information on the feeding value of modern stubbles.

16 Oct 2018 - 30 Jun 2021

New South Wales, Australia

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

No more gaps with superior shrub systems logo
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No more gaps with superior shrub systems

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

Nutritional gaps present a large production cost to grass-fed woolgrowers due to suboptimal ruminant production and conservative whole-farm stocking rates. Drought tolerant shrubs provide nutrients to complement, and thereby improve, the feed conversion ratio of crop and pasture residues during summer/autumn. These shrubs lift farm profitability by reducing supplementation requirements,...

1 Sep 2018 - 30 Jun 2021

New South Wales, Australia

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

Unlocking the keys to ewe survival logo
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Unlocking the keys to ewe survival

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project is designed to improve understanding of the causes of death of non-Merino ewes over the lambing period, with the aim to ultimately reduce ewe mortality by 30%.

31 Oct 2018 - 30 Oct 2021

New South Wales, Australia

Livestock Logic

Refining body condition score for region logo
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Refining body condition score for region

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project will refine current advice on body condition score (BCS) targets for ewes across a wide range of regions, breeds and season of mating. Results will support and enhance the current cost-benefit estimates in the Life time Ewe Management (LTEM) adoption package for a wider set of conditions.

1 Jun 2019 - 15 Nov 2022

New South Wales, Australia

New South Wales Department of Industry, Environment and Planning (DIEP)

Increasing lambing percentages through pregnancy scanning logo
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Increasing lambing percentages through pregnancy scanning

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project will seek to overcome key barriers to adoption of pregnancy scanning utilising a number of approaches, including strengthening the business case for pregnancy scanning and addressing concerns about scanning accuracy, the economics of adopting the technology and the associated logistics of managing ewes separately according to litter size.

24 Jun 2019 - 28 Feb 2023

New South Wales, Australia

The University of Adelaide (UA)

A review of the impact of heat stress logo
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A review of the impact of heat stress

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

The core focus of this project is to conduct a review of literature on the effect of heat stress on male and female reproductive physiology to identify knowledge gaps. Where appropriate, the project will develop a program strategy to investigate short, medium and long-term methods of mitigating and managing the...

1 Aug 2019 - 14 Jun 2020

New South Wales, Australia

The University of Adelaide (UA)

A novel amino acid approach to lamb survival logo
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A novel amino acid approach to lamb survival

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project will establish whether maternal amino acid supplementation increases energy supply to the reproductive tract and foetal development, thus reducing in utero and peri-natal lamb losses. It is expected that through practical and cost-effective amino acid supplementation during gestation, twin-lamb survival could increase by 5 percent.

8 Oct 2019 - 15 Mar 2023

New South Wales, Australia

The University of Adelaide (UA)

Optimising ewe reproductive performance logo
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Optimising ewe reproductive performance

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project will develop evidence based guidelines that will assist producers optimise reproductive and feeding management of containment fed ewes. Key outcomes will include evidence based R&D gaps as well as a suite of producer facing extension materials.

15 Mar 2020 - 31 Jan 2021

New South Wales, Australia

Charles Sturt University (CSU)

Fit to Join – Ewe Assessment Tools logo
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Fit to Join – Ewe Assessment Tools

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

To date most RDE&A has focused on improving ewe nutrition during pregnancy and management during lambing and weaning. There remains an untapped opportunity to improve lamb survival outcomes though more rigorous ewe assessment and selection before joining. As such, this project will develop a series of producer ewe assessment tools...

1 Oct 2020 - 1 Feb 2023

New South Wales, Australia

Pinion Advisory Trust