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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

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Livestock Language Review Expert Group consultation

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project will support preparing documentation for the Livestock Language Review Expert Group, in the form of Recommended National Standards for Bovine Language and a Glossary of Terms, to be used in Industry Consultation. Industry consultation will result in final documents to be presented to Australian Meat Industry Language and...

17 Jun 2020 - 18 Jun 2021

New South Wales, Australia

Industry Beef Consulting Pty Ltd

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MSA Processor Customer Satisfaction

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

To understand the level of customer satisfaction of MSA licenced processors with the services offered by the MSA program and develop a survey which can be administered annually to monitor satisfaction over time.

21 Jun 2019 - 30 Mar 2020

New South Wales, Australia

Circ Consulting

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Improved reproductive efficiency of cattle demonstration site

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

The aim of this Producer Demonstration Site is to benchmark reproductive performance in the northern pastoral zone of South Australia. It will also demonstrate that keeping individual records on breeders and managing them accordingly can increase reproductive efficiency productivity.

1 Jan 2019 - 31 Dec 2021

New South Wales, Australia

Outback Lakes Producers

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Enhanced Producer Demonstration Site (PDS)

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project will coordinate a suite of seven Enhanced Producer Demonstration Sites per year, over three years, across Victoria. The site swill directly involve at least 100 producers who will participate in planning, delivering and monitoring their demonstration site, with the assistance of Agriculture Victoria staff and external service providers...

1 May 2018 - 1 May 2022

New South Wales, Australia

Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions (DJPR) [Vic]

Grazing crops to increase farm profitability logo
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Grazing crops to increase farm profitability

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

The aim of this Producer Demonstration Site is to demonstrate that grazing crops will increase liveweight gain and condition scores of ewes relative to current forage options, without negatively impacting on grain yields later on.

15 Jan 2018 - 28 Oct 2022

New South Wales, Australia

Corrigan Farm Improvement Group

Forage systems for optimal weaning management logo
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Forage systems for optimal weaning management

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This Producer Demonstration Site will demonstrate the benefits of using a forage crop pasture mix during weaning for prime lamb production or merino ewe productivity, relative to current forage options within the Western Australia Mediterranean Zone.

25 Jun 2018 - 25 Nov 2022

New South Wales, Australia

Corrigan Farm Improvement Group

Increasing carrying capacity and poor soil logo
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Increasing carrying capacity and poor soil

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This Producer Demonstration Site will demonstrate that sowing cereals and canola into legume pastures can improve sheep profitability and productivity in the Lake Grace area, by increasing carrying capacity and stocking rates through improved pasture composition, grazing, quality and quantity.

30 Jun 2018 - 31 Jan 2022

New South Wales, Australia

AgPro Management

PDS: Using eID to improve ewe performance logo
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PDS: Using eID to improve ewe performance

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This Producer Demonstration Site will demonstrate how electronic identification technology can be used to augment monitoring of ewes, which can improve their welfare and reproductive performance. Monitoring ewes allows producers to ensure they are receiving adequate nutrition, and identify and appropriately manage ewes that are found to be in suboptimal...

30 Jun 2018 - 28 Feb 2021

New South Wales, Australia

The University of Melbourne

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Managing trace element deficiencies in soil

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This Producer Demonstration Site will demonstrate appropriate practices for diagnosing trace element deficiencies (i.e. blood tests, liver samples/biopsies for copper) and use leaf analysis to highlight seasonal variation in clover and grass mineral status. The benefits of using electronic identification technology to collect and collate data will also be demonstrated.

1 Nov 2018 - 30 Apr 2024

New South Wales, Australia

Lisa Warn Ag Consulting Pty Ltd