Partners

Future Farm Industries Cooperative Research Centre

Profitable Perennials™ for Australian landscapes

The Future Farm Industries (FFI) CRC is a unique co-investment between meat, grains and wool industry research corporations, the Landmark agribusiness company, and the combined research power of CSIRO, six State agencies and four universities. This partnership will transform dryland agriculture in southern Australia through the combined strategies of innovative research and development, education and training, and commercialisation and utilisation.

The goal of FFI CRC is to build agriculture’s capacity to generate an estimated $1.36 billion of wealth in ways that suit Australia’s unique environment, and which will prosper in the long term.

The key to this industry transformation is Profitable Perennials™; the application of perennial plant technologies to result in:

• Intensification and productivity growth in existing industries through the development and adoption of innovative new farming systems
• New regional industries through development of, and investment in, woody crop production on farms
• Sustainable land use changes reducing impacts of dryland salinity, conserving biodiversity and water resources, and adapted to subsoil constraints and climatic variability.

The scope for innovative solutions based on the increased use of Profitable Perennials™ has been demonstrated by FFI CRC’s predecessor, the CRC for Plant-based Management of Dryland Salinity (CRC Salinity) and its partner organisations.
 
Visit the Future Farm Industries CRC website

Meat & Livestock Australia

Meat & Livestock Australia Limited (MLA) is a producer-owned company that provides services to livestock producers, processors, exporters, food service operators and retailers.

MLA has over 43,000 livestock producer members who have stakeholder entitlements in the company.

MLA is primarily funded by transaction levies paid on livestock sales by producers.The Federal Government also contributes a dollar for each dollar spent in R&D. This is supplemented by cooperative contributions from individual processors, wholesalers, foodservice operators and retailers. Processors and live animal exporters pay levies under contract to MLA.

MLA invests in R&D relevant to the sheep, cattle and goat sectors of the industry, both on and off farm, to boost the productivity and sustainability of the entire red meat supply chain.

On-farm R&D projects include grazing management, animal health and welfare, feedlot management, meat quality, animal genetics for improved efficiency and environmental management.

Off-farm R&D activity includes environmental management, eco-efficiency, product development, health and safety, education and training, technology development and commercialisation, food safety and microbiological research, and co-product innovations such as new blood fractions and rendering process technologies.

Visit the Meat and Livestock Australia website

Australian Wool Innovation

AWI is a public, not-for-profit company that is owned by and works solely for the benefit of Australian woolgrowers. AWI aims to constantly deliver new and better means to increase the demand for Australian wool, boost the prosperity of growers and protect our natural resources.

The company’s mission is to drive research, development and innovation that will increase the long-term profitability of Australian woolgrowers.
AWI initiates, commissions and delivers research and development (R&D) to Australian woolgrowers. Working through alliances and contracts and, where possible, commercialising R&D outcomes, AWI’s primary aim is the adoption of technology - on farm and along the global wool pipeline.

AWI also provides trade development and market intelligence services on behalf of Australian woolgrowers, and provides government with economic and social data to support Australian representations to other nations.

Priorities for investment in R&D are to:

• Build the demand for wool by creating exciting market-oriented fashion concepts.
• Develop new wool products wanted by the market and ensure they become commercial successes.
• Work with Government and the industry to improve global trade access for Australian wool.
• Improve wool processing competitiveness against other fibres.
• Develop genetic tools for use by woolgrowers.
• Overcome long-standing animal health and welfare issues, such as blowfly strike, lice and mulesing.
• Lower average Australian wool production costs per unit of raw wool.
• Address the critical shortage of shearers and shed hands and improve the OH&S environment.
• Research techniques and tools to manage price volatility

Visit the Australian Wool Innovation websites:

    www.woolinnovation.com.au
    www.wool.com.au