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L.SFP.1023 - Carbon Calculator & Environmental Credentials IT Platform Support

MLA has made platforms for environmental credentials and carbon calculators freely available to red meat producers.

Project start date: 24 March 2025
Project end date: 15 December 2026
Publication date: 06 August 2026
Project status: In progress
Livestock species: Grass-fed Cattle
Relevant regions: National

Summary

Support costs for the Environmental Credentials Platform and MLA Carbon Calculator. This was used to provide technical support with:

- Issue Trouble Shooting
- Support Availability
- Health Checks
- Proactive updates/upgrades & recommendations (remediation capacity 12hrs/month)
- Knowledge Management
- Uplifted Documentation
- Produce backlog for grooming/prioritisation
- Monthly cadence meeting to track days used/plan workload ahead

Objectives

MLA’s Carbon Calculator & Environmental Credentials for Grassfed Beef platform requires ongoing technical and IT support to ensure the systems run effectively and are updated when required. This scope of work is for Cognizant to provide ongoing application support and maintenance of both platforms.

Key findings

IT support

Benefits to industry

Providing evidence of environmental and sustainability credentials to key stakeholders.

MLA action

Undertake scoping work to ensure relevance and value to Australian red meat producers

Future research

Undertake scoping work to ensure relevance and value to Australian red meat producers

More information

Project manager: Jacob Betros
Contact email: reports@mla.com.au