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Lucerne Variety Trial – Assess optimum plant stress levels for seed production logo
Research project

Lucerne Variety Trial – Assess optimum plant stress levels for seed production

The importance of Lucerne as a pasture species in Australia has been supported by innovation of new varieties. This variety trial will generate and communicate independent data on the performance of newer lucerne varieties grown under a number of different irrigation management systems in Australian conditions. Plant stress through changes...

9 May 2018 - 1 Oct 2023

New South Wales, Australia

Lucerne Australia Inc.

Assessment welfare and carcass quality issues during transport (w/truck design) logo
Research project

Assessment welfare and carcass quality issues during transport (w/truck design)

This project assesses potential welfare and carcass quality issues during transport of broiler chickens and develops options for proof-of-concept truck modifications to address these issues. For potential welfare issues overseas studies indicate that temperature and distance transported are key variables with respect to overall transport-related mortality. Potential physical harm to...

12 Oct 2018 - 30 Mar 2020

New South Wales, Australia

EnviroAg Australia Pty Ltd

Review of rodent control for the Australian Chicken Meat and Egg Industries logo
Research project

Review of rodent control for the Australian Chicken Meat and Egg Industries

This project aims to gain a greater understanding of the challenges faced by the chicken meat and egg industries as individual producers attempt to implement their own specifically tailored rodent control programs. The first phase of the project involves consultations with a diversity of chicken meat and egg industry stakeholders...

25 Jun 2018 - 31 Jan 2020

New South Wales, Australia

Department of Primary Industries and Regions

Antimicrobial Sensitivity Testing – a survey of laboratory capacity logo
Research project

Antimicrobial Sensitivity Testing – a survey of laboratory capacity

"This project will establish the capacity of laboratories used by the chicken meat industry in key areas linked to antimicrobial sensitivity testing. The capacities to be surveyed will include:
A) the ability to isolate and identify key bacteria (pathogens and commensals);
B) the capacity to perform standardized antimicrobial susceptibility testing;...

13 Aug 2018 - 15 Jul 2020

New South Wales, Australia

The University of Queensland

Increasing Australia's preparedness for vvIBDV logo
Research project

Increasing Australia's preparedness for vvIBDV

Infectious Bursal Disease Virus (IBDV) is responsible for major economic losses in the poultry industry worldwide. To date, strains endemic to Australia are distinct from those overseas but the accidental incursion of exotic IBDV strains, particularly very virulent IBDV (vvIBDV), poses a serious threat to the Australian Poultry Industry. This...

21 May 2018 - 29 Nov 2021

New South Wales, Australia

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

Next generation probiotics to enhance the gut health of chickens logo
Research project

Next generation probiotics to enhance the gut health of chickens

Probiotics can be used to support the health and productivity of chicken meat birds but currently have a variable reputation. This investment aims to identify and develop probiotic strains of bacteria that are able to reliably colonise and persist within the variable environment of the gut microbiota of chickens. The...

14 Jun 2018 - 8 Mar 2022

New South Wales, Australia

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

National Hay Agronomy project logo
Research project

National Hay Agronomy project

This investment provides agronomic and pathology information for export fodder producers. The project will target hay variety responses to nutrition and plant density, effect of time of sowing on hay quality, impact of diseases on hay quality and yield, optimum timing of disease management intervention. Information will be widely communicated...

29 Jun 2018 - 8 Jun 2022

New South Wales, Australia

Western Australian Agriculture Authority, a body corporate established under the Biosecurity and Agriculture Management Act 2007

Economic Evaluation of Investment in the New & Emerging Plant & Animal Program logo
Research project

Economic Evaluation of Investment in the New & Emerging Plant & Animal Program

Undertake an economic evaluation of AgriFutures' investment in the New and Emerging Plant Industries (NEPI) and the New and Emerging Animal Industries (NEAI) RD&E Programs.

1 Dec 2017 - 21 Aug 2018

New South Wales, Australia

Agtrans Research

Improving mid-season nitrogen management of rice logo
Research project

Improving mid-season nitrogen management of rice

This project will improve mid-season nitrogen management of rice through the use of red-edge and other sensor imagery and refinement of algorithms to provide accurate spatial nitrogen application recommendations at panicle initiation.

1 Aug 2018 - 6 Dec 2021

New South Wales, Australia

(DPIRD NSW) The Crown in right of the State of New South Wales acting through the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development

Traits of importance for aerobic 'DryRice' varieties for the Riverina region logo
Research project

Traits of importance for aerobic 'DryRice' varieties for the Riverina region

The Australian rice production system in southern NSW has historically been reliant on flooded conditions that consume large amounts of water. This investment targets the selection of genotypes with optimal performance in aerobic growing conditions that also exhibit cold tolerance. Traits of importance will be identified and communicated to breeders....

30 Jun 2018 - 9 Jun 2022

New South Wales, Australia

The University of Queensland