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Dr Steve Banney was contracted as a consultant to advise on Animal Welfare activities that fell outside specific research projects...

Did you know that MLA is partnering with skilled veterinarians to develop a phone app that will allow producers on farm to diagnose the type and stage of eye disease in cattle?

During times of drought, many beef producers implement their drought mitigation plan through destocking to manage livestock welfare, and conserve...

Animal Welfare Officers (AWOs) are those people employed in the feedlot who have overall responsibility for monitoring and supervising animal...

Cross-sector Operational Biosecurity Risk Assessment

This project was undertaken to investigate what opportunity might exist for a blended red meat and plant protein product. Products evaluated were burgers and meatballs, which blended beef and lamb with specialised plant proteins.

​Australian livestock businesses have economic, legal and ethical motives to ensure the welfare of production animals in their care is...

CSP Module 5 - Steak 'n wood: demonstrating livestock productivity and environmental service benefits of trees on farm in northern systems

Stakeholder consultation revealed demand for a ‘push service’ that provides stakeholders with the latest R&D information and further action is required to promote MLA’s enhancements to R&D accessibility and transparency. Since February 2020, MLA has released 'R&D Round-Up', a summary of MLA’s recently completed R&D projects plus summaries of projects that are currently in progress. The August 2021 addition featured six completed MLA projects: V.RMH.0111 Baseline consumer sensory testing of alternate protein burgers P.PSH.1242 Evidence-based digital traceability trials for beef exports to China - Digital / physical supply chain verification L.PDS.1808 PDS: Using eID to improve ewe performance B.CCH.2111 MCV5 – Changes in summer rainfall and implications for agriculture P.PSH.1046 Understanding the value of farm specific sensors with LoRaWAN V.RMH.0095 Preliminary evaluation of flavourless smoke in chilled Australian lamb. This edition also featured four in-progress projects related to MLA's animal health and welfare program: P.PSH.1305 Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered mobile app for the assessment of eye disease in cattle B.AHE.2102 Bushfire implications for livestock wellbeing B.AHE.0318 Reducing foetal and lamb losses in young ewes P.PSH.2057 Developing and implementing objective sheep lifetime pain measurement and mitigation strategies

This relates to financial years 2013 to2017 annual allocated bucket for on-farm related animal welfare IP and commercialisation costs. Once...