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Grazier engagement to increase knowledge, skills and ability to combat pasture dieback logo
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Grazier engagement to increase knowledge, skills and ability to combat pasture dieback

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project aims to provide knowledge and the support grazier's need to accurately identify and diagnose dieback on their property and understand the practices that could potentially combat dieback. This will be achieved by forming one grazier group in central Queensland, a region heavily affected by dieback. Graziers will participate...

15 Sep 2020 - 3 Mar 2022

New South Wales, Australia

Department of Agriculture and Fisheries Queensland (DAFQ)

Managing Welfare and Production at Weaning site logo
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Managing Welfare and Production at Weaning site

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project will investigate the use of analgesics at the time of castration and/or dehorning, to determine any resulting impacts on welfare and production outcomes in beef cattle. Results from the pilot study will then inform a Producer Demonstration Site involving six Northern Territory properties.

19 Jul 2019 - 30 Nov 2022

New South Wales, Australia

Department of Industry, Tourism and Trade (NTDPIR) [NT]

Quantifying spatial and temporal changes in feed supply and demand logo
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Quantifying spatial and temporal changes in feed supply and demand

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project will identify technically feasible pathways to create a tool that provides an early warning of imbalanced feed supply and demand to manage livestock and wild herbivores. It will deliver a costed implementation plan and provide a means to verify environmental impacts and total grazing pressure on pastures.

15 Sep 2019 - 1 Feb 2021

New South Wales, Australia

New South Wales Department of Industry, Environment and Planning (DIEP)

Integrated management and development of additional agents for Parkinsonia logo
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Integrated management and development of additional agents for Parkinsonia

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project builds on previous Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) research that focused on biological control of Parkinsonia, by releasing additional leaf defoliating biological control agents, developing new tools to ease the monitoring of their establishment and investigating a fly species that has been identified as a potential biological agent...

2 Dec 2019 - 1 Apr 2024

New South Wales, Australia

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

A new hope for the biological control of blackberry logo
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A new hope for the biological control of blackberry

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

Blackberry is one of the top ten weeds of priority to Australian grazing industries. Over 9 million hectares of productive pastures across the Southern Australia Livestock Research Council geographic region have been invaded by impenetrable thickets of European blackberry. In 2006, the economic cost of blackberry from lost pasture production...

29 Jun 2020 - 30 Apr 2026

New South Wales, Australia

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

2019 Balance of Tree and Grass Cover Report and Capability logo
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2019 Balance of Tree and Grass Cover Report and Capability

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project will enable national reporting of both increase and decrease of different classes of vegetation across the country. The project will produce an integrated annual time-series of data (and data visualisation tools) that will be able to provide reporting for the framework, but also create the basis for a...

11 Mar 2019 - 31 May 2020

New South Wales, Australia

Cibo Labs Pty Ltd

Mapping Climate and Biodiversity Stakeholders logo
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Mapping Climate and Biodiversity Stakeholders

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

To assist industry to prepare for evolving global policy, this project will engage with stakeholders to identify improved ways of managing land and livestock in a new low emission economy. This will influence food security, livestock feed, fibre, bioenergy, carbon sequestration, and biodiversity and ecosystem services.

30 Apr 2019 - 30 Dec 2020

New South Wales, Australia

Comhar Group Pty Ltd

ABSF balance of tree and grass cover indicator reporting logo
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ABSF balance of tree and grass cover indicator reporting

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project will streamline data analysis processes required for reporting the balance of tree and grass cover (BoTGC) under the Australian Beef Sustainability Framework (ABSF).

14 Feb 2020 - 30 Jul 2021

New South Wales, Australia

Cibo Labs Pty Ltd

Greenhouse gas footprint of the Australian red meat production and processing sectors 2017 & 2018 updates logo
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Greenhouse gas footprint of the Australian red meat production and processing sectors 2017 & 2018 updates

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project involves providing information relevant to updating the greenhouse gas(GHG) footprint of the Australian red meat production (farm and feedlot) and processing sectors, relative to the 2005 baseline using 2017 and 2018 data

15 Mar 2020 - 30 Jun 2021

New South Wales, Australia

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

Productivity & Profitability Webinar Series logo
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Productivity & Profitability Webinar Series

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project follows on from the hugely successfulL.MMS.1702: Making More from Sheep & L.ADP.190:Productivity & Profitability Webinar series for Red Meat Producers. This project will increase awareness of fundamental practices they can implement to increase productivity and profitability, as well as providing direction to participate in further Meat and Livestock...

26 Aug 2020 - 28 May 2023

New South Wales, Australia

Holmes Sackett Pty Ltd