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Testing Tropicals - NSW Southern Slopes logo
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Testing Tropicals - NSW Southern Slopes

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project will fund a Producer Demonstration Site (PDS) featuring tropical and sub-tropical pasture species in production systems on the southern slopes of New South Wales. Producers will be able to compare these species to current summer feed options (e.g. lucerne and summer-active perennials), and work out what management adaptations...

10 Nov 2021 - 1 Jun 2027

New South Wales, Australia

Profitable Grazing Systems Package Development - Editing and Design logo
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Profitable Grazing Systems Package Development - Editing and Design

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

Profitable Grazing Systems (PGS) takes small groups of like-minded producers who want to improve their whole-farm performance and matches them with a deliverer who builds their knowledge, skills and experience through hands-on training. This project funds final stage editing, design and proofreading of the latest Profitable Grazing Systems packages and...

20 Nov 2021 - 23 Jun 2023

New South Wales, Australia

Nuffield Scholarship - FY 2022 / 2023 / 2024 logo
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Nuffield Scholarship - FY 2022 / 2023 / 2024

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

The project allocates funding support for a Nuffield Scholarship to be awarded annually to the best Australian livestock producer candidate. Nuffield Australia is the country’s leading agricultural scholarship organisation, which awards primary producers with a life-changing scholarship to travel and study innovative global concepts, techniques and systems that will hopefully...

11 Oct 2021 - 30 Mar 2026

New South Wales, Australia

Report on discover and design process for the Livestock Data Link (LDL) feedback system user interface logo
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Report on discover and design process for the Livestock Data Link (LDL) feedback system user interface

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

Livestock Data Link (LDL) is an online feedback program that enables the timely sharing of carcase and animal disease information between processors and their producers with the aim of optimising supply chain performance. The feedback system needs to be modernised. This project will undertake the discovery and design of a...

25 Jun 2021 - 30 Oct 2022

New South Wales, Australia

Supply chain integrity desirability analysis logo
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Supply chain integrity desirability analysis

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project will explore the supply chains and relationships that exist between Australian processors/exporters and the final retail customer. Consumers believe that product in high end retailers, with few steps between processor and final customer, has implicit trust, whereas product in low transparency wet markets requires scrutiny. The research focuses...

1 Dec 2021 - 30 Nov 2022

New South Wales, Australia

Molecular risk assessment of Salmonella in red meat logo
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Molecular risk assessment of Salmonella in red meat

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

Salmonella infection (salmonellosis) is a type of gastroenteritis caused by Salmonella bacteria. It remains a significant public health issue in Australia, and foods of animal origin are most frequently considered to be the source of infection in humans. This project will conduct a molecular risk assessment of Salmonella in red...

1 Dec 2021 - 29 Jun 2023

New South Wales, Australia

Scoping future LPA audit program requirements logo
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Scoping future LPA audit program requirements

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

The Livestock Production Assurance (LPA) program requires producers to provide evidence of livestock history and on-farm practices when transferring livestock through the value chain, and underpins market access for Australian red meat. ISC is looking at identifying ways to improve and digitise the LPA program to help assess core areas...

21 Jun 2021 - 4 Apr 2022

New South Wales, Australia

Residues in Livestock Production - On-Farm Risk Mitigation logo
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Residues in Livestock Production - On-Farm Risk Mitigation

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project aims to strengthen on-farm risk management around biosecurity and food safety through exploring mechanisms to notify users and stakeholders of potential contamination or exposure. Ideally, the solution will enable automatic verification and notification, in order to manage and mitigate the risk of sending non-compliant livestock to sensitive markets....

2 Sep 2021 - 30 Nov 2022

New South Wales, Australia

Real-time, data-driven approach to assessing networked biosecurity risk logo
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Real-time, data-driven approach to assessing networked biosecurity risk

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

The purpose of this project was to interview a number of red meat stakeholders that are custodians of biosecurity data to collect feedback, and identify data sharing opportunities to determine the key risks and opportunities for data sharing between government and commercial organisations.

30 Oct 2021 - 30 Sep 2022

New South Wales, Australia

Pressurised CO2 technology (Farther Farms) and its ability to reduce reliance on a chilled Supply chain literature review logo
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Pressurised CO2 technology (Farther Farms) and its ability to reduce reliance on a chilled Supply chain literature review

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

This project funds a literature review of Farther Farms, Inc and its pressurised CO2 technology that claims to support the storage and distribution of fresh foods without needing refrigeration. If proven, this technology has the benefit to add value across multiple channels and markets in Australia and globally, responding to...

12 Aug 2021 - 29 Apr 2022

New South Wales, Australia