Current tenders
The new project BioBrowser: Establishing a biodiversity baseline for the Australian goat industry, commenced in early June 2025 and will finish by October 2027. The BioBrowser Project Reference Group will co-design the development of a biodiversity baseline for the Australian goat industry, with MLA and the project team (Enviro-dynamics, Schuster Consulting Group and Vanguard Business Services). The Reference Group will consist of a maximum of eight (8) people, including goat producers, goat industry representatives and technical biodiversity experts.
Meat & Livestock Australia is calling for applications from commercial goat producers (farmed and harvested rangeland goats), industry and biodiversity technical specialists to fill the eight (8) available positions on the BioBrowser reference group.
Expressions of Interest for all positions close on 18 July 2025 – please see the EOI documents for further detail.
Meat & Livestock Australia, with support from the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) are seeking expressions of interest (EOI) from goat producers to participate in a project investigating NLIS-approved electronic identification (eID) device retention in the Australian goat industry.
Data will be collected from participating farms to help us understand device retention rates and key factors that contribute to optimal eID device retention. Participation will involve up to two on-farm data collection visits by the project team between August 2025 and February 2026.
The project is being undertaken by AbacusBio on behalf of MLA and DAFF. If you are a goat producer from QLD, NSW or SA and interested in participating in the project as a case study farm please register your interest by completing the contact form accessed via the link below:
On receipt of your contact form, you will be contacted by AbacusBio to discuss the project and its participation requirements. AbacusBio will also ask further questions to assist with selection of the final case study farms. All information provided by you will be managed in accordance with the MLA Privacy Policy.
The request for callback closes COB Friday 25 July.
Your participation matters and MLA appreciates your potential interest in this project. Let us learn from your experience in eID retention on behalf of the Australian goat industry.
For further information, please contact tenders@mla.com.au with subject line “EOI – NLIS-approved eID device retention in goats”.
Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA) is seeking preliminary applications from organisations (or partnerships of organisations) to conduct a literature review on establishing the complete farm system biogenic carbon cycle at a farm and national level.
Net greenhouse gas emissions of the grazing system is the balance between the emissions (from livestock, agriculture soils and farm dams, lime application, fertiliser, pasture residues, vegetation or soil carbon loss due to conversion or management of grazing land) and sequestration in the farming environment (soils and vegetation). Establishing a net emissions position versus a direct emission position acknowledges the role grazing livestock have in the environment and the biogenic nature of ruminant derived greenhouse gas.
MLA applications must be lodged electronically as Word document to: tenders@mla.com.au
Stage 1 MLA Applications must be received by 17:00 AEST on August 15th, 2025.
Strict adherence to the time deadline for applications will occur. Incomplete request for tender applications without the required documentation will not be assessed.
Further information:
Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA) is seeking preliminary proposals for RD&A projects that will develop improved grazing management guidelines for different land systems and climate zones across northern Australia, to protect and improve landscape productivity.
Applications should nominate target regions and land systems within Northern Australia where grazing guidelines require improvement. It is not essential for individual applicants to develop guidelines for all land systems across Northern Australia. Specifically, these projects are to be conducted in regions represented by the North Australia Beef Research Council (NABRC).
Proposals may be funded by producer levies, the MLA Donor Company, or a combination of the two.
Applicants should carefully review the linked tender document before completing their preliminary project proposal. Requested activities are specified on pages 13-16. The tender document contains further links to all necessary documentation.
Request for tender form and specifications
Submit proposals electronically to MLA at projectcall@mla.com.au and copy to apeake@mla.com.au. Preliminary proposals must be received by MLA before 5pm AEST Friday 22nd August 2025. Late proposals will not be accepted.
MLA is seeking expressions of interest from interested organisations to submit an expression of interest to find collaborators and participants to be involved in developing new reference projects and models to facilitate collaboration, co-investment and supply chain partnerships to support the long-term sustainability of reference populations.
The NLGC envisages that these reference projects will possibly differ from a traditional model with a single research flock/herd and management team, to expand and include other industry collaborators and flocks. We are looking for but not limited to organisations such as producers, processors, research stations, genotyping companies, extension experts, project managers, and retail or wholesalers.
This EOI closes on 30 July 2025 – please see attached the EOI document for further detail and the link to the online application form.
MLA is seeking expressions of interest from interested organisations to submit an expression of interest to find collaborators and participants to be involved in developing new reference projects and models to facilitate collaboration, co-investment and supply chain partnerships to support the long-term sustainability of reference populations.
The NLGC envisages that these reference projects will possibly differ from a traditional model with a single research flock/herd and management team, to expand and include other industry collaborators and flocks. We are looking for but not limited to organisations such as producers, processors, research stations, genotyping companies, extension experts, project managers, and retail or wholesalers.
This EOI closes on 30 July 2025 – please see attached EOI documents for further detail and the link to the online application form.
MLA is seeking preliminary proposals for RD&A projects that will identify, evaluate and demonstrate strategies for utilising failing or weedy crops for forage either through grazing or conserved forage in the form of hay or silage. Importantly a range of audiences should be targeted including growers (crop only, crop/livestock) as well as the advisory sector.
Projects can be conducted anywhere in the southern Australian mixed farming regions represented by the Southern Australia Livestock Research Council (SALRC) and the Western Australia Livestock Research Council (WALRC). Applicants should carefully review the linked tender document before completing their preliminary project proposal. Requested activities are specified on pages 13-17. The tender document contains further links to all necessary documentation.
Request for tender form and specifications.
Preliminary proposals must be received by MLA before 5pm AEST Friday 18th July 2025. Late proposals will not be accepted. Submit proposals electronically to MLA at: projectcall@mla.com.au.
If you have questions about this open call, contact:
Joe Gebbels
Project Manager – Sustainable Feedbase Resources
Email: jgebbels@mla.com.au
Phone: 0448 273 214
MLA is seeking preliminary proposals for RD&A projects that will develop improve sown and native pasture varieties relevant to grazing systems across southern Australia. Activities to improve plant-microbe symbioses, seed collections and seed technology are also within scope for certain components of the investment call. Specifically, these projects are to be conducted in regions represented by the Southern Australia Livestock Research Council (SALRC).
Applicants should carefully review the linked tender document before completing their preliminary project proposal. Requested activities are specified on pages 13-16. The tender document contains further links to all necessary documentation.
Request for tender form and specifications.
Preliminary proposals must be received by MLA before 5pm AEST Friday 18th July 2025. Late proposals will not be accepted. Submit proposals electronically to MLA at: projectcall@mla.com.au.
If you have questions about this open call, contact:
Allan Peake
Program Manager – Sustainable Feedbase Resources
Email: apeake@mla.com.au
Addendum – 2 May 2025
This tender was revised on 2 May 2025. The revisions include i) simplifying the tender to requiring only a preliminary application from applicants by the due date (plus the tender forms), ii) additional information on the strategic goals of the MLA feedlot Program R&D to help guide applicants on the areas that investment would be prioritised.
MLA is seeking Expression of interest, in the form of preliminary applications from organisations or partnerships of organisations to co fund research and development opportunities targeting any of the following key strategic themes: automation, animal health and welfare, animal performance, environmental sustainability & emissions reduction. As part of this opportunity MLA, via the MLA donor company, can contribute up to 40% of the total project cost (not including project administration fees).
Preliminary applications (6 page limit) to the RFT must be lodged electronically to tenders@mla.com.au
Applications must be received by 17:00 AEST on 25 July 2025.
MLA is seeking applications from organisations to co fund development or evaluation of technologies that improve the health and/or the performance of feedlot cattle.
Applications and supporting documentation as requested in the RFT must be lodged electronically to tenders@mla.com.au
Applications must be received by 17:00 AEST on 25 July 2025.
