MLA Managing Director, Michael Crowley, presenting at the Rockhampton BeefUp Forum in 2025.
Upcoming opportunities to learn, connect and lead
Interested in finding out what MLA has upcoming in 2026? Here is your round up of upcoming events and activities.
EARLY BIRD tickets now available for southern Livestock Advisor Essentials
Livestock Advisor Essentials (LAE) is a professional development program designed for early career professionals working in the livestock industry. Following the successful delivery of the program in northern Australia in 2025, LAE will be offered in southern Australia throughout 2026.
This is an unbeatable opportunity to:
- Gain practical skills, tools and knowledge that you can apply to your role to enhance your offering to clients.
- Build confidence and capability to provide holistic, high-quality advice and support to your red meat clients in five key areas – feedbase, business, value chain, genetics and reproduction, and people and extension.
- Explore new communication approaches to effectively engage with clients and promote your services to potential clients.
- Expand your network of industry contacts to share learnings and advice.
Registrations are now open and are at an early bird discounted cost of $2,750 (incl. GST). After 31 March, registration for the full program will be $3,250 (incl. GST).
Register here for the southern Livestock Advisor Essentials.
For more information contact the team at livestockadvisoressentials@pinionadvisory.com or visit the website.
We will be back on the airwaves from June with our new partners, neXtgen Agri.
Keep an ear out for upcoming podcasts, and in the meantime, check out our webinar and podcast library for topics that might be relevant to you.
MLA’s three flagship awareness forums, MeatUp, BeefUp and Livestock Advisor Updates are returning in 2026. The awareness events showcase updates on research, markets and extension opportunities for red meat producers and advisors.
The 2026 series of events will kick off with a BeefUp forum in Morven, QLD, on 14 April. A total of eight events will be delivered around the country throughout 2026. Keep up to date with the MLA events page to head along to a forum in your area.
Opportunities to get involved with MLA
MLA invites organisations to submit tenders and expressions of interest for project funding regularly via the current open tenders page.
Bookmarking this page and periodically checking for any project calls that might be a good fit for your business is an excellent way to get involved with and secure funding from MLA to better the red meat industry.
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Want to see new management practices and technologies in action?
The PDS projects are hands-on programs demonstrating the benefit of best management practices and new technologies on local commercial properties. Working in supportive peer groups, producers gain new skills alongside confidence to apply these learnings to their own business.
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