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National workshop feed intake and efficiency

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project will coordinate a national workshop to address issues around the measurement of feed intake and efficiency for sheep. National experts and industry colleagues who have coordinated research efforts into this area will help provide recommendations for future collaborative R&D.

9 Apr 2020 - 1 Oct 2021

New South Wales, Australia

Western Australian Agriculture Auth

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Sheep Genetics Breeders Guide

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project involves an external technical review of the Sheep Genetics breeders guide to make it more relevant and up to date for Australian sheep industries. It will ensure that the current content is up to date and in a logical format, whilst also including more information about genomics and...

20 Apr 2020 - 15 Dec 2020

New South Wales, Australia

Murdoch University

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Delivery of FutureBeef industry engagement

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project will provide a coordinated approach to the delivery of online information and industry engagement, to give the northern beef industry access to a 24/7 one-stop shop for relevant information. It will also provide a platform to identify, instigate and maintain collaborative adoption initiatives.

23 Mar 2018 - 28 Feb 2022

New South Wales, Australia

Department of Agriculture & Fishery

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Livestock Productivity Partnership (LPP)

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

On behalf of LPP Program Partner, Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) proposes to conduct an in-depth review into RD&A investments across the Program, the impact of these investments and the effectiveness of industry collaborations.

18 Jun 2020 - 12 Apr 2021

New South Wales, Australia

Beattie Consulting Services Pty Ltd

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Managing fecund flocks to improve survival

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project seeks to define the size of the issue and develop best practice management strategies to reduce the mortality of triplet bearing maternal ewes and their lambs, to capitalise on the profit opportunity and mitigate welfare risks.

1 Jan 2018 - 30 May 2023

New South Wales, Australia

Murdoch University

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Boosting lamb survival by supplementing

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project will establish producer demonstration sites across southern Australia to validate the results of a previous small-scale experiment, which has shown that supplementing ewes during late pregnancy with vitamin D or Plus selenium may improve lamb survival by up to10%. Ewes will also be tested for vitamin D, E...

28 Jan 2018 - 15 Nov 2023

New South Wales, Australia

Murdoch University

The nutritive value of modern crop stubble logo
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The nutritive value of modern crop stubble

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

A recent scoping study found that modern crop stubbles are notoriously variable in quality, with non-cereal crops even more variable. This project will provide farmers with up-to-date digital information on the feeding value of modern stubbles.

16 Oct 2018 - 30 Jun 2021

New South Wales, Australia

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

No more gaps with superior shrub systems logo
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No more gaps with superior shrub systems

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

Nutritional gaps present a large production cost to grass-fed woolgrowers due to suboptimal ruminant production and conservative whole-farm stocking rates. Drought tolerant shrubs provide nutrients to complement, and thereby improve, the feed conversion ratio of crop and pasture residues during summer/autumn. These shrubs lift farm profitability by reducing supplementation requirements,...

1 Sep 2018 - 30 Jun 2021

New South Wales, Australia

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

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Unlocking the keys to ewe survival

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project is designed to improve understanding of the causes of death of non-Merino ewes over the lambing period, with the aim to ultimately reduce ewe mortality by 30%.

31 Oct 2018 - 30 Oct 2021

New South Wales, Australia

Livestock Logic

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Refining body condition score for region

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project will refine current advice on body condition score (BCS) targets for ewes across a wide range of regions, breeds and season of mating. Results will support and enhance the current cost-benefit estimates in the Life time Ewe Management (LTEM) adoption package for a wider set of conditions.

1 Jun 2019 - 15 Nov 2022

New South Wales, Australia

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