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385 research projects

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Central Australian Self Herding (CASH)

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

The purpose of this Producer Demonstration Site is to demonstrate the range of benefits that Self Herding can bring to grazing management for Central Australian pastoralists. Benefits include better drought resilience, expanded feed base and improved animal production and welfare outcomes.
Beef cattle

30 Mar 2020 - 30 Jun 2028

New South Wales, Australia

RTM

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Improved Grazing Production on Non-Wetting Soils

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

The South Australian Non-Wetting Soils (NWS) project will apply soil amelioration techniques tested in cropping systems, to sandy soil based grazing systems to improve biomass production and test longevity of these treatments under commercial livestock grazing systems. By demonstration of new technologies and techniques that look at improving retention of...
Beef cattle
Sheep & lamb

31 Jul 2020 - 15 Nov 2026

New South Wales, Australia

Coorong District Council

Research project

Bred Well Fed Well Beef and Sheep Coordination

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

Bred Well Fed Well coordination, review and delivery 2020-2025. This project aims to build on the success of previous BWFW delivery, undertaking a review to enhance the project with latest research outcomes and delivery methods. The project will be completed in three stages. The first stage will see the continual...
Beef cattle
Sheep & lamb

30 Oct 2020 - 20 Dec 2025

New South Wales, Australia

Schuster Consulting Group Pty Ltd

Research project

A new hope for the biological control of blackberry

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)

Blackberry is one of the top ten weeds of priority to Australian grazing industries. Over 9 million hectares of productive pastures across the Southern Australia Livestock Research Council geographic region have been invaded by impenetrable thickets of European blackberry. In 2006, the economic cost of blackberry from lost pasture production...
Cross industry

29 Jun 2020 - 30 Apr 2026

New South Wales, Australia

Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions (DJPR) [Vic]

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MLPAO Evaluability of Anti Mullerian hormone

Australian Wool Innovation (AWI)

This project aims to increase ewe weaning rates and lifetime productivity by providing sheep producers with a more accurate method of identifying more fertile and fecund ewe lambs before first mating. The proposed marker is anti-müllerian hormone (AMH), which is produced solely by the ovary and can be measured accurately...
Wool

10 Sep 2018 - 1 Dec 2025

New South Wales, Australia

The University of Melbourne