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Te Pari Feedlot and Auto Handler logo
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Te Pari Feedlot and Auto Handler

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project will engage Te PariProducts Ltd to develop a Feedlot Automation product for the feedlot induction process. The design of the prototype will be determined during the first phase of the project and then piloted in select feedlots.

20 Dec 2019 - 30 May 2021

New South Wales, Australia

Te Pari Products Limited

Australian Optimal Carcass Endpoint and Sorting System logo
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Australian Optimal Carcass Endpoint and Sorting System

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project will produce the first version of the Australian Optimal Carcase Endpoint and Sorting System. Currently, no commercialised decision support systems exist for Australian lot feeders to enable cattle sorting and optimisation of days on feed for profit maximisation.

17 Jan 2020 - 30 Jun 2022

New South Wales, Australia

The University of Sydney (USYD)

Automated Bunk Management – Commercial trial logo
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Automated Bunk Management – Commercial trial

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) and Manabotix have commercialised alidar-based bunk scanner (Australian Patent number: 2018203945) which is more precise and accurate at determining feed remaining in cattle feed bunks than human callers. Mort & Co will host a trial site (Grassdale Feedlot) to determine the value proposition of the...

1 Jun 2020 - 30 Nov 2021

New South Wales, Australia

Manabotix Pty Ltd

Automated bunk management – ACC trial logo
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Automated bunk management – ACC trial

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) and Manabotix have commercialised alidar-based bunk scanner (Australian Patent number: 2018203945) which is more precise and accurate at determining feed remaining in cattle feed bunks than human callers. Australian Country Choice (ACC) will host a trial site (Opal Creek Feedlot) to determine the value proposition...

1 Jun 2020 - 30 Nov 2021

New South Wales, Australia

Australian Country Choice Processing

BunkBot lot feeder demonstration site logo
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BunkBot lot feeder demonstration site

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project will support a demonstration the BunkBot for the lot feeding industry for a two-year period. The Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) BunkBot will be integrated into routine bunk management practices at Mort &Co Pinegrove feedlot under both day and night operating conditions. Monthly tours of the demonstration site...

1 Jun 2020 - 15 Nov 2022

New South Wales, Australia

Manabotix Pty Ltd

Assessment of Grain Edge® technology to meet Australian government quarantine requirements for imported grain logo
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Assessment of Grain Edge® technology to meet Australian government quarantine requirements for imported grain

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

The proposed assessment of a technology to meet Australian government quarantine requirements for imported grain project will provide the fundamental data that supports future applications by the MLA members to import grain, giving them options on how to maintain productivity during periods of domestic low supply and high prices.

1 Oct 2020 - 30 Jun 2022

New South Wales, Australia

Colere Group Pty Ltd

Longitudinal analysis of antimicrobial resistance of grain-fed beef cattle logo
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Longitudinal analysis of antimicrobial resistance of grain-fed beef cattle

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

PROJECT: Previous Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) projects (Barlow et al. 2015; Barlowet al. 2017) conducted slaughter surveillance in2013 at 31 Australian abattoirs on grass-fed, grain-fed, veal and dairy cattle. In general, resistance to antimicrobials of critical and high importance in human medicine was either absent orat very low prevalence....

1 Sep 2018 - 1 Sep 2021

New South Wales, Australia

The University of Adelaide (UA)

Antimicrobial resistance surveillance of bovine respiratory disease pathogens logo
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Antimicrobial resistance surveillance of bovine respiratory disease pathogens

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project conducted pilot surveillance of resistance of bovine respiratory disease (BRD) pathogens to common veterinary antimicrobial agents across seven Australian feedlots in 2019, to encourage the adoption of best practice antimicrobial stewardship practices by the industry.

1 Sep 2018 - 28 Feb 2020

New South Wales, Australia

The University of Adelaide (UA)

Calibration of a remote early disease identification system for Australian feedlots logo
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Calibration of a remote early disease identification system for Australian feedlots

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project evaluated data from two Australian feedlots to determine potential associations between behaviour, lung condition(pleurisy) and carcase outcomes in cattle with Bovine Respiratory Disease, using the remote early disease identification (REDI) system.

1 Nov 2018 - 2 Mar 2020

New South Wales, Australia

Precision Animal Solutions, LLC

Effect of liver defects on carcase characteristics, performance and health logo
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Effect of liver defects on carcase characteristics, performance and health

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project will examine the effect of liver defects on carcase characteristics, performance and health of feedlot cattle. It is expected that the impact of liver abscess and liver fluke (and any other pertinent liver conditions) will be quantified across three feedlots supplying one abattoir.

1 Nov 2018 - 3 Nov 2021

New South Wales, Australia

The University of Queensland (UQ)