Improving efficiency of pig feed manufacturing and application of additives

Improving the efficiency of pig feed manufacturing and application of additives.

Lot feeding and intensive livestock manure and effluent management

Manure management emissions may present much greater opportunity for greenhouse gas mitigation in the feedlot, pig, chicken meat, egg and diary industries, than the current IPCC and DCC calculation guidelines suggest. Current literature and understanding of manure mass loss throughout the manure management system does not support these current guidelines; in which the emission rates are fixed and consequently don't allow incentives for reduced emissions.

Improving the efficiency of pig feed manufacturing and application of additives

This project aims to reduce production costs for high-quality pork through understanding how commercial processing conditions affect mill throughput, processing energy efficiency, product durability and the nutritional value of pig feed.

Developing improved grazing and related practices to assist beef producters

This project will identify and evaluate grazing management and related practices for beef enterprises in northern Australia that will assist them to build resilience and adapt to a changing and more variable climate. With input from scientists and experienced producers, the trade-offs or synergies between production, sustainability and profitability indicators associated with different management practices will be evaluated in the target regions, using a bio-economic modelling framework. The latter will account for region-specific, climate-change outlooks.

Validation and development of PigBal model

This project involves validating and upgrading the PigBal model to improve the accuracy of manure production predictions from intensive piggery operations.

Improving production of cows and fattening cattle in Indonesia and north Australia

To increase numbers and reproduction in Ongole and Bali cows by as much as 60% in Indonesia requires use of rice straw for maintenance of cows and higher quality feed and crop by-products for growth and fattening of calves. These feedstuffs exist in large quantities. The project will couple feeding systems with management (controlled mating with a selected bull, weaning, compost production), previously developed by the project team, in village-based adaptive research across the main cattle regions of Indonesia, with emphasis on East Java. The project will link with research on nutrition interactions with reproduction of cows in indigenous pastoral systems in north Australia.

Validation and development of PigBal model - Stage 2

The proposed project involves validate and upgrading the PigBal model to improve the accuracy of manure and GHG production predictions.

Feeding to increase productivity and reduce greenhouse gas emissions

Feeding to increase productivity and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Enhancing digestibility of pastures by cattle using kangaroo bacteria

Enhancing digestibility of native pastures by cattle using kangaroo fibrolytic bacteria.

Ageing validation of northern carp populations

The Carp is considered a threat to our native river fish and ecosystems by its ability to adapt to almost any fresh water body and through its feeding and breeding habits, change environmental parameters such as turbidity, light and water temperatures. This project forms part of the Invasive Animal CRC's freshwater program and is part of a strategy to develop control measures for carp. The age and size at maturity for carp in the northern part of their range (ie. Queensland) is currently unknown.

Strategies to increase growth of the weaned Bali calf

R&D to increase growth of Bali calves in the Eastern Islands of Indonesia.

Optimising growth paths of beef cattle in northern Australia for increased profit

Strategies for increasing growth of cattle using different growth paths.

Improving the quality of kikuyu by reducing the lignin content

Development of improved pasture grass via chemical mutagenesis and selection of mutations in lignin genes.

Descriptions and keys to fungus-feeding Australian species in 5 genera of thrips

Fifty species in five genera of fungus feeding thrips, collected in part by Bush Blitz, are described. Details of 35 new species are combined with species previously named but not recognisable from literature, and illustrated identification keys to all species published. All specimens are data-based. These thrips are important ecologically, being associated with nutrient recycling from dead plants, and as food for various birds, lizards and frogs.

Addressing the demand for feed grains through the development of high yielding

Development and evaluation of high yielding feed wheat grermplasm.