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PDS: Improved Pasture Management Systems logo
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PDS: Improved Pasture Management Systems

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

The project aims to improve the pasture management systems implemented in the upper north of South Australia through engaging 12 core producers and 90 observer producers at three sites to demonstrate better pasture options that improve the mixed farming enterprise, and to show that a better understanding of Food On...

1 Jan 2022 - 15 Sep 2025

New South Wales, Australia

Best Practice Management of Non-mulesed Sheep logo
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Best Practice Management of Non-mulesed Sheep

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project funds a Producer Demonstration Site (PDS) to demonstrate best management practice of a non-mulesed flock, using available tools and management strategies, to mitigate the effect of flystrike on flock production and profitability.

30 Nov 2021 - 20 Aug 2026

New South Wales, Australia

PDS: Effective Rangeland EID Decision Making Systems logo
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PDS: Effective Rangeland EID Decision Making Systems

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project supports a Producer Demonstration Site (PDS) to show how the use of individual animal identification can contribute to improved profitability, productivity and sustainability in rangeland sheep enterprises. An Electronic Identification (EID) system that measures the individual animal can provide data to inform decision making for the whole flock.

20 Nov 2021 - 15 Jul 2025

New South Wales, Australia

PDS: Feeding Grain on Grass logo
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PDS: Feeding Grain on Grass

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project will fund a demonstration site for producers in central west and northern New South Wales, to demonstrate the benefits of using forage and grain feed tests to develop a grain ration to supplement livestock that are grazing forage crops. Supplementary feeding increases liveweight gain and enables improved production...

1 Jan 2022 - 20 May 2025

New South Wales, Australia

Pasture Monitoring in the Rangelands logo
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Pasture Monitoring in the Rangelands

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

The Producer Demonstration Site (PDS) funded by this project aims to demonstrate that routine monitoring and management of key pasture species can boost the productivity of rangelands livestock businesses. The project will engage 5 core producers and 15 observer producers responsible for managing 700,000ha, 140,000 sheep and 2,500 cattle.

20 Dec 2021 - 27 Aug 2027

New South Wales, Australia

Healthy Subsoils Produce More Red Meat logo
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Healthy Subsoils Produce More Red Meat

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

The Southern Australia Livestock Research Council (SALRC) promotes innovation and learning in the red meat and livestock industries of southeast Australia. This project funds a Producer Demonstration Site (PDS) to address the SALRC priority to 'Improve pasture establishment, productivity and persistence in landscapes prone to subsoil compaction or hard pan...

1 Nov 2021 - 11 Jul 2028

New South Wales, Australia

Calibration and accreditation of the SOMA device to measure IMF in sheepmeat logo
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Calibration and accreditation of the SOMA device to measure IMF in sheepmeat

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

Soma Optics, Ltd is a Japanese supplier of near infrared technologies to assess meat quality characteristics in livestock. This project will support the final calibration of three SOMA devices to predict intramuscular fat (IMF) in Australian sheepmeat, which is an indicator of eating quality factors such as tenderness, juiciness and...

30 Oct 2021 - 29 Dec 2023

New South Wales, Australia

Building faster and improved genetic evaluation tools and systems logo
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Building faster and improved genetic evaluation tools and systems

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project will further amplify the cumulative and permanent genetic gains in the Australian red meat industry, investing in genetic evaluation of new traits such as methane output and novel measures of animal welfare and resilience, along with more specific measures of consumer acceptance and nutritional value traits. Commercial producers...

30 Nov 2021 - 1 Mar 2027

New South Wales, Australia

Coordination of Beef Reference Populations logo
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Coordination of Beef Reference Populations

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project will coordinate and provide direction for a number of R&D projects collecting reference data for beef cattle. Deliverables include project design, genotyping strategies, in-project data analysis/reporting, communications/stakeholder reporting, and data flows/annotation to a central database and to BREEDPLAN. Coordination across projects will ensure the overall investment is cost-effective.

30 Jul 2021 - 16 Jul 2025

New South Wales, Australia

Sheep Genetics Database Re-Development - Phase Three logo
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Sheep Genetics Database Re-Development - Phase Three

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

The overall aim of this project is to deliver a single sheep database system containing sheep pedigree, data and genotypes. This information is currently spread across more than 6 databases. This component will complete the new reporting systems, allowing ram breeders and buyers to make improved breeding decisions. It will...

30 Jul 2021 - 11 May 2022

New South Wales, Australia