At more than $219 million a year, neonatal lamb loss is a huge cost to sheep producers. An MLA-funded project will dig deeper into the causes of dystocia, which contributes to 50% of losses.
Find out exactly how your red meat industry levies were invested last financial year in MLA’s Annual Report 2017–18, available in a new interactive online format for the first time.
By mid-2019, producers could have access to Numnuts – a new tool to improve pain relief outcomes during sheep husbandry, developed with MLA funding.
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Meat & Livestock Australia Ltd (MLA) strives to be the recognised leader in delivering world-class research, development and marketing outcomes that benefit Australian cattle, sheep and goat producers.
Working in collaboration with the Australian Government and wider red meat industry, MLA's mission is to deliver value to levy payers by investing in initiatives that contribute to producer profitability, sustainability and global competitiveness.
The new regional consultation model gives producers direct input into MLA’s R&D priorities.
Click on the icons below to find out more about how MLA invests in research & development and marketing on behalf of producers. Funding comes from transaction levies paid on livestock sales, the Australian government and voluntary contributions from industry partners.
MLA is investing $66.9m on behalf of grassfed cattle producers in 2018-19.
MLA is investing $14.7m on behalf of grainfed cattle producers in 2018-19.
MLA is investing $47.3m on behalf of sheepmeat and lamb producers in 2018-19.
MLA is investing $1.2m on behalf of goat producers in 2018-19.
MLA invested $39.8m on behalf of supply chain levy payers in 2018-19.
The new Spring Lamb marketing campaign ‘Too Easy’ has been developed to inspire people aged 18-44 years to eat lamb more often, by challenging the perception that lamb is hard to cook and not suitable for an everyday option.
MLA is seeking partners to further develop and commercialise a range of potential solutions to some of the Australian red meat and livestock industry’s most pressing problems, including a new vaccine for Johne’s disease in sheep and cattle.
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Twenty-six Livestock Market Officers (LMOs) currently work across Australia as part of MLA’s National Livestock Reporting Service. Covering more than 3,000 markets a year and thousands of kilometres between them, LMOs attend and report on up to 70 of the nation’s cattle, sheep and goat sales on a weekly basis.
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MLA members have less than a week to complete and submit their voting entitlement and proxy forms ahead of the upcoming Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Canberra on 21 November 2018.
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Red meat producers and industry stakeholders unable to attend Red Meat 2018 in Canberra later this month will be able to tune in and hear the latest industry and market insights regardless of where they are.
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