3727 research projects
Research project
Pasture Dieback: evaluation and delivery of diagnostic tools and information products for graziers
Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)
This project will integrate and strengthen grazier design led thinking elements embedded in the pasture dieback (PD) research program and industry engagement activities currently underway. It will develop grazier skills and industry capacity at scale to identify and manage and mitigate the impacts of pasture dieback on livestock production.
1 Apr 2021 - 1 May 2024
New South Wales, Australia
Research project
Dietary pesticide footprint
Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)
This project will review potential pesticide toxicity footprint, leveraging a recent pioneering high-resolution assessment of the pesticide impacts of agriculture in Australia. The findings will highlight the risk of environmental trade-offs resulting from substituting foods with higher climate change impacts for those with lower impacts.
15 Jun 2021 - 30 Nov 2022
New South Wales, Australia
Research project
Protein Foods for Sustainable Diets
Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)
This project builds on previous research on dietary strategies required to shift the Australian diet within planetary boundaries for freshwater, cropland and climate change. This project proposes to confirm the benefits of maintaining red meat consumption at current levels in a healthy diet by contributing to micronutrient adequacy and consumption...
15 Jun 2021 - 30 Nov 2022
New South Wales, Australia
Research project
Easy P - Increasing adoption of Phosphorus supplementation in northern Australia
Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)
The purpose of this integrated R&D PDS project is to increase adoption of phosphorus (P) supplementation in northern Australia. The adoption emphasis is focused on properties that have not adopted P supplementation because they feel that it is too difficult to implement in the wet season. Achieving this would greatly...
23 Nov 2020 - 31 May 2027
New South Wales, Australia
Research project
Supporting Sheep producers transition to non-mulsed sheep
Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)
This project will support sheep breeders to utilise existing tools and management strategies available to transition to a non-mulesed flock. The project has seven producer demonstration sites spread across south west Victoria, north east Victoria, central west Victoria and southern NSW supported by three facilitators.
23 Mar 2021 - 2 Mar 2025
New South Wales, Australia
Research project
Joining Ewe Lambs Tool
Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)
Joining ewe lambs provides opportunity to increase lamb supply and rapidly build ewe numbers. This project will leverage past research to develop a decision support tool that supports producer decision making around joining ewe lambs. A pilot adoption program will be run within the project to ensure user training and...
15 Mar 2021 - 30 May 2025
New South Wales, Australia
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