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Increasing lambing percentages through pregnancy scanning logo
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Increasing lambing percentages through pregnancy scanning

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project will seek to overcome key barriers to adoption of pregnancy scanning utilising a number of approaches, including strengthening the business case for pregnancy scanning and addressing concerns about scanning accuracy, the economics of adopting the technology and the associated logistics of managing ewes separately according to litter size.

24 Jun 2019 - 28 Feb 2023

New South Wales, Australia

The University of Adelaide (UA)

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A review of the impact of heat stress

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

The core focus of this project is to conduct a review of literature on the effect of heat stress on male and female reproductive physiology to identify knowledge gaps. Where appropriate, the project will develop a program strategy to investigate short, medium and long-term methods of mitigating and managing the...

1 Aug 2019 - 14 Jun 2020

New South Wales, Australia

The University of Adelaide (UA)

A novel amino acid approach to lamb survival logo
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A novel amino acid approach to lamb survival

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project will establish whether maternal amino acid supplementation increases energy supply to the reproductive tract and foetal development, thus reducing in utero and peri-natal lamb losses. It is expected that through practical and cost-effective amino acid supplementation during gestation, twin-lamb survival could increase by 5 percent.

8 Oct 2019 - 15 Mar 2023

New South Wales, Australia

The University of Adelaide (UA)

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Optimising ewe reproductive performance

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project will develop evidence based guidelines that will assist producers optimise reproductive and feeding management of containment fed ewes. Key outcomes will include evidence based R&D gaps as well as a suite of producer facing extension materials.

15 Mar 2020 - 31 Jan 2021

New South Wales, Australia

Charles Sturt University (CSU)

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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

Improved reproductive efficiency of cattle demonstration site logo
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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