Domestic markets: Projects

Livestock properties occupy almost 50% of the Australian continent. They have potential to store large amounts of carbon in vegetation and soil as well as supporting unique biodiversity…
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The Potential for rangeland grassfed assurance programs in Western Australia project aimed to: conduct a desktop review of existing global grassfed certification programs; undertake modelling to determine the…
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The Understanding of the relationship between Bos indicus content and consumer eating quality using genetic markers project aimed to: develop algorithms to estimate Bos indicus content from high…
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The Updating a model of meat demand in Australia to test for the impact of MSA project updated an existing model of meat demand in Australia to take…
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The MSA sensory testing of Fletcherview cattle project tested eating quality of cuts from entire and castrated male Bos indicus cattle that were either homozygous positive or homozygous…
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The Investigating and improving market compliance issues in beef markets in central Queensland project aimed to identify and determine the causes of animals not complying with intended market…
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High-output forage systems for meeting beef markets: Phase 1 investigated increasing profitability of growing and finishing beef cattle in the Fitzroy River catchment through more effective utilisation of…
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The High-output forage systems for meeting beef markets: Phase 2 project built on findings from Phase 1 to investigate the relative profitability of six forage options for backgrounding…
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The Growth and meat quality of grain finished entire male Bos indicus cattle project built on previous MLA research which demonstrated significant productivity gains in entire male cattle.…
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The Enhancing BeefSpecs systems for improving market compliance of pasturefed beef in southern Australia project has enhanced the BeefSpecs tools to assist pasture fed beef producers improve compliance…
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