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DairyFeedbase - Smart Feeding

Dairy Australia

The Smart Feeding project aims to deliver tools and technologies for the measurement of dry matter intake in individual cows on pasture, at both a research and farm scale. These technologies will help develop farm management strategies that enable more efficient and profitable allocation of pasture and supplementary feed resources...

1 Jul 2018 - 30 Jun 2023

Victoria, Australia

Dairy Australia, Agriculture Victoria, Gardiner Dairy Foundation

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DairyFeedbase - Future Forage Value Index

Dairy Australia

The Forage Value Index (FVI) rating system helps Australian dairy farmers and their advisers make more informed decisions when selecting cultivars. It provides an accurate, reliable and independent assessment of the potential economic value of perennial ryegrass cultivars in different dairy regions of south-east Australia. This project will develop a...

1 Jul 2018 - 30 Jun 2023

Victoria, Australia

Dairy Australia, Agriculture Victoria, Gardiner Dairy Foundation

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DairyFeedbase - First 100 Days

Dairy Australia

The First 100 Days project aims to assist Australian dairy farmers make management decisions about supplementary feeding to economically increase production, while maintaining good animal health. The project is targeting outcomes of an extra $2 per cow per day profit (milk income minus supplement cost) in the first 100 days...

1 Jul 2018 - 30 Jun 2023

Victoria, Australia

Dairy Australia, Agriculture Victoria, Gardiner Dairy Foundation

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DairyBio Forage - Integrative genomics-assisted F1 hybrid breeding of perennial ryegrass-endophyte symbiota for pasture improvement

Dairy Australia

This project aims to develop a novel F1 hybrid breeding system for perennial ryegrass and a suite of accompanying technologies. Genomic selection will triple the rate of genetic gain in commercial breeding programs.

1 Jul 2016 - 30 Jun 2021

Victoria, Australia

Dairy Australia, Agriculture Victoria, Gardiner Dairy Foundation

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DairyBio Forage - Endophyte technologies for pasture improvement

Dairy Australia

This project aims to deliver ryegrass cultivars with a compatible endophyte that will improve and protect the plants’ performance including an additional three years productive life through the delivery of optimal endophytes to provide optimal insect protection, while not being detrimental to dairy productivity.

1 Jul 2016 - 30 Jun 2021

Victoria, Australia

Dairy Australia, Agriculture Victoria, Gardiner Dairy Foundation

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DairyBio Forage - Integrative genomics-assisted F1 hybrid breeding of short-term ryegrass (Italian and Westerwold) for pasture improvement.

Dairy Australia

This project will migrate and validate the F1 hybrid breeding scheme into short-term ryegrass. The key outcomes of the project include transfer of F1 Hybrid breeding technology into new species. initiation of an additional 10 parental pools to significantly expand the possible F1 experimental varieties that could be taken to...

1 Jul 2016 - 30 Jun 2021

Victoria, Australia

Dairy Australia, Agriculture Victoria, Gardiner Dairy Foundation

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DairyBio Forage - Exploiting the Lolium microbiome to enhance performance of pasture and turf temperate grasses

Dairy Australia

Lolium perenne (perennial ryegrass) is a common temperate pasture grass species and is favoured by Australian dairy farmers. Commercially, the known association with the mutualistic endophytic fungus Epichloë festucae subsp. lolii is used to enhance insect resistance of host plants. Knowledge of other members of the microbiome and their functions...

1 Jul 2016 - 30 Jun 2021

Victoria, Australia

Dairy Australia, Agriculture Victoria, Gardiner Dairy Foundation

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Technical Policy Support

Dairy Australia

This project invests in research that will assist the Australian dairy industry formulate policies that support the Australian dairy industry whilst meeting community and producer expectations.

1 Jul 2020 - 30 Jun 2022

Victoria, Australia

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A Circular Economy for Silage Wrap

Dairy Australia

This project supports the development of a Product Stewardship Scheme for farm plastics, and, in particular, dairy silage wraps and covers. The project will assess the requirements for a successful and resilient product stewardship scheme and then, if feasible, run regional pilots before moving to national implementation. Supporting the Australian...

4 Jan 2021 - 31 Mar 2023

Victoria, Australia

Dairy Australia, MRA Consulting Group

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The University of Melbourne Dairy Resident Training Program

Dairy Australia

The University of Melbourne

1 Feb 2019 - 1 Mar 2022

Victoria, Australia

The University of Melbourne

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DairyFeedbase - Smart Feeding

DairyFeedbase - Future Forage Value Index

DairyFeedbase - First 100 Days

DairyBio Forage - Integrative genomics-assisted F1 hybrid breeding of perennial ryegrass-endophyte symbiota for pasture improvement

DairyBio Forage - Endophyte technologies for pasture improvement

DairyBio Forage - Integrative genomics-assisted F1 hybrid breeding of short-term ryegrass (Italian and Westerwold) for pasture improvement.

DairyBio Forage - Exploiting the Lolium microbiome to enhance performance of pasture and turf temperate grasses

Technical Policy Support

A Circular Economy for Silage Wrap

The University of Melbourne Dairy Resident Training Program

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