MLA updates

Join us for MLA updates: Redefining resilience – a five-part webinar series in the lead up to the AGM, providing updates, insights and inspiration for a resilient future for your business.

This free webinar series, held from 4 November – 18 November 2020, is your chance to hear from MLA’s Managing Director Jason Strong and investment managers as well as ask questions around MLA’s investment in crucial research and marketing activities.

Webinar 3: Redefining resilience through innovation across the value chain

Diversifying and developing on and off-farm practices that customers, consumers and the community perceive as beneficial to contribute to greater economic and environmental resilience for our industry.

In this webinar:

Boosting productivity and product value across the value chain
Speaker: Jason Strong, MLA Managing Director

• how MLA’s value chain information and efficiency program fosters the prosperity and resilience of the Australian red meat and livestock industry by enabling increased productivity and product value across the value chain.

Drive your business forward by turning data into decisions
Speaker: Dr Jane Weatherley, CEO Integrity Systems Company

• the importance of capturing, integrating and interpreting the vast and increasing range of data generated through existing and new technologies.

Livestock Data Link – optimising supply chain performance

• how the red meat value chain data platform, Livestock Data Link (LDL), provides opportunities to capture, interrogate and utilise date to benefit your livestock enterprise
• how LDL can help producers analyse carcase performance and animal health conditions to address non-compliant issues on-farm.

Enabling supply chain feedback
Speaker: Ed Morton, Rapiscan Chief Technology Officer

• how the ALMTech program partnership links objective measurement and automation to benefit producers
• what attracted Rapiscan, a company best known for airport baggage handling, to the meat industry and what this partnership has achieved to date.

Eating quality and connecting the supply chain
Speaker: David Packer, MSA Program Manager

• how a focus on the seamless transfer of information to producers led to improving eating quality and better returns
• how MSA will meet its long-term objective to make all cattle eligible for MSA grading.