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FAP Pasture Tools & Calculators Update logo
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FAP Pasture Tools & Calculators Update

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

FAP Pasture Tools & Calculators Update

31 Mar 2019 - 30 Jun 2022

New South Wales, Australia

Morgan Rural Tech Pty Ltd

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) R&D Updates logo
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Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) R&D Updates

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) R&D Updates is a national program designed to better connect outputs from Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) underdid with people in industry. Industry will use the outputs to improve the profitability and sustainability of Australia’s red meat industries and fast track the adoption of Meat...

1 Nov 2018 - 28 Jul 2022

New South Wales, Australia

Pinion Advisory Trust

Improved Grazing Production on Non-Wetting Soils logo
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Improved Grazing Production on Non-Wetting Soils

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

The South Australian Non-Wetting Soils (NWS) project will apply soil amelioration techniques tested in cropping systems, to sandy soil based grazing systems to improve biomass production and test longevity of these treatments under commercial livestock grazing systems. By demonstration of new technologies and techniques that look at improving retention of...

31 Jul 2020 - 15 Nov 2026

New South Wales, Australia

Coorong District Council

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Development and delivery of Pasture Paramedic

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

The successful Implementation of Pasture Paramedic tool kit (L.FAP.1903) has been developed for perennial pastures in the Southern High rainfall zone. It was developed to assist producers and advisors to assess if and when pastures require intervention or resowing to optimise profitability and persistence. Due to the success of the...

14 Aug 2020 - 30 Jun 2022

New South Wales, Australia

Nicon Rural Services

Feedbase Fact Sheets Editing logo
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Feedbase Fact Sheets Editing

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

The Feed base Adoption Plan (FAP) projects are designed to assist producers to better understand and manage and improve pasture growth and quality, to support improved productivity/profitability. This statement of work aims to engage a editorial agency to edit, graphic design and proof reading fact sheets to meet Meat and...

15 Sep 2020 - 29 Aug 2021

New South Wales, Australia

Bahr Ag Pty Ltd

Sheep Genetics Database Interface Upgrade logo
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Sheep Genetics Database Interface Upgrade

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) launched this project to improve the rate of genetic gain of the Australian sheep industry by simplifying the tools, language and descriptions offered through the 'Sheep Genetics' database web tool. The new web tool will provide users with simplified, intuitive access to information and improved...

17 Jan 2020 - 8 Jan 2021

New South Wales, Australia

TigerSpike Pty Ltd

Female Reproduction Phenobank and Validation logo
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Female Reproduction Phenobank and Validation

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project will use stored DNA samples to genotype animals with existing phenotypic records, to help reduce the time to validate genetic estimated breeding values (gEBVs).Accurate gEBVs can transform the rate of genetic gain and the pathways to adoption of improved genetics in Australia.

30 May 2018 - 20 Oct 2021

New South Wales, Australia

The University of Queensland (UQ)

Feed intake measurement of cattle logo
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Feed intake measurement of cattle

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project is to extend the cover of variable costs of recording feed intake for Angus and Hereford BIN projects. The project will cover data captured at the Tullimba R&D Feedlot run by UNE that contribute to the improvement of feed use efficiency. Previously data capture was covered under an...

1 May 2019 - 30 Jun 2020

New South Wales, Australia

University of New England (UNE)

Predicting age of livestock from DNA samples logo
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Predicting age of livestock from DNA samples

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project will adopt methodology developed in the field of forensic science and apply it to livestock in order to predict the age of animals. Knowledge of the age of animals is often a key barrier to implementing large scale genetic improvement programs, especially in the Northern beef industry.

1 Oct 2018 - 30 Jul 2021

New South Wales, Australia

The University of Queensland (UQ)

Sensory testing to underpin genomic prediction logo
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Sensory testing to underpin genomic prediction

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project will create and maintain a database to determine genomic predictions of Meat Standards Australia-based eating quality scores. It will also develop new Australian Sheep Breeding Values for eating quality of lamb cuts.

30 Oct 2018 - 1 Nov 2021

New South Wales, Australia

Murdoch University