Skip to Content Skip to Navigation

Connecting the agrifood innovation community around the world by providing a digital platform and a premier agrifood tech event.

Australian Pork (APL)

Australian Pork Limited is an Australian Research and Development Corporation.

Our purpose is to enable a thriving pork industry. Our vision and goal is to be Australia’s preferred choice protein; sustainably adding $1 billion to farm gate value by 2025. Our values:

  • Results driven – say what we’ll do; do what we say; prove it
  • Challengers – courageously question to actively learn
  • Team players – one team, shared dreams
  • Future focused – position for tomorrow’s needs today

These values are the cornerstones of our organisation; they shape the culture of APL and support the growth of the industry. They are the guiding principles for interactions of the APL Board, management and business units with each other, members, industry stakeholders and the community.

Location

Australia

Organisation type

Research funding body
Visit website

Related organisations

Focus areas

Industries

Sustainabilities

Technology areas

Commercial opportunities

Browse all commercial opportunities
Logo for Australian Pork - Waste water and effluent sterilisation technology
Multiple industries

Australian Pork - Waste water and effluent sterilisation technology

Opportunity for

Intensive agriculture and power generators interested in commercialising water treatment technology to recycle wastewater and effluent with hot gas bubbles from exhaust gases. Use cases include:

  • farms and wastewater treatment plants with biogas generation
  • waste disposal industries like landfills with biogas generation
  • biogas plants and coal power plants which emit large amounts of hot CO2 from exhaust gases that can be reused.
  • Led by

    Australian Pork (APL)

  • Opportunity type

    Seeking investment, Licensing

  • Readiness
    Mid (TRL 5-7)
    Proof of concept in the laboratory then in the field resulting in the development of a minimum viable product (MVP).

Research projects

Other research projects
Logo for Standardised antimicrobial testing
Pork

Standardised antimicrobial testing

One of the key steps in controlling and managing bacterial infections in animals is by accurate identification of infections, and …
  • Funded by

    Australian Pork (APL)

  • Project date

    31 May 2017 - 28 Jun 2018

  • Research organisation

    Murdoch University

Logo for Viability of biogas on medium-scale piggeries
Pork

Viability of biogas on medium-scale piggeries

Biogas is a renewable source of energy that can be produced and captured from piggery effluent and can be used …
  • Funded by

    Australian Pork (APL)

  • Project date

    19 Mar 2019 - 1 Jun 2020

  • Research organisation

    University of Southern Queensland (USQ)

Logo for Analysing production costs of whole v immunocastrated males
Pork

Analysing production costs of whole v immunocastrated males

APL has previously conducted research studying the effects of immunocastration (IC), such as improvement of pork eating quality and affect …
  • Funded by

    Australian Pork (APL)

  • Project date

    1 Jun 2021 - 28 Oct 2021

  • Research organisation

    The University of Melbourne

Logo for More piglets born alive with dextrose
Pork

More piglets born alive with dextrose

Seasonal infertility can manifest itself in various forms but reports typically concentrate on reductions in farrowing rate and litter size. …
  • Funded by

    Australian Pork (APL)

  • Project date

    12 Feb 2018 - 27 Jun 2019

Logo for Reduced nightly heating for indoor weaner sheds
Pork

Reduced nightly heating for indoor weaner sheds

Heating weaner sheds in winter represents a significant energy cost in the pig industry. Reducing the heating cost in weaner …
  • Funded by

    Australian Pork (APL)

  • Project date

    8 Mar 2021 - 30 Jul 2021

Logo for Piggery Odour Emission Rate Validation Study
Pork

Piggery Odour Emission Rate Validation Study

Piggeries have the potential to cause odour impacts and as such, odour is an important consideration at all stages of …
  • Funded by

    Australian Pork (APL)

  • Project date

    13 Apr 2018 - 4 Sep 2020

  • Research organisation

    Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (QDAF)

Be featured and enhance your exposure

Submit your organisation today.

Navigating the research and innovation ecosystem is not always easy. To make it easier for the growAG. audience to connect with you, please submit your organisations details below.

Have questions? Find answers to our most frequently asked questions on research projects, commercial opportunities, organisations and more. 

Submit to growAG. Frequently asked questions