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Rural R&D for Profit program update – delivering real outcomes for Australian pork producers
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Pig Industry Calendar of Events
2017
JUL 21 - 25 – AVMA Convention, Indianapolis, Indiana, US www.avma. org
AUG 7 - 10 – International Society for Applied Ethology (ISAE), Aarhus, Denmark www.conferences.au.dk/ isae2017
AUG 21 - 24 –SAFEPORK 2017, Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil www.safepork2017. com.br
AUG 29 - 31 – SIAVS - International Poultry and Pork Show, São Paulo, Brazil www.siavs.org.br/?lang=en
SEP 5 - 8 – International Conference on the Assessment of Animal Welfare at Farm and Group Level, Wageningen, The Netherlands www.wafl2017.com
SEP 12 - 15 – SPACE, Parc-Expo de Rennes, France uk.space.fr/en/ welcome.aspx
SEP 19 - 22 – Allen D. Leman Swine Conference, Saint Paul, Minnesota US www.cceevents.umn.edu/allen-d- leman-swine-conference
SEP 20 - 22 – Animal Genetics and Disease 2017, Cambridge, UK https:// coursesandconferences.wellcome genomecampus.org/register/conf erences/form1.aspx?e=635
SEP 25 - 27 – PackExpo Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada, US www. packexpolasvegas.com
OCT 22 - 24 – Leman China Swine Conference, Nanjing, China www. vetmed.umn.edu/news-events/leman- china-swine-conference
NOV 7 - 9 – Pig Welfare Symposium, Des Moines, Iowa US www.pork.org/ pig-welfare-symposium
NOV 19 - 22 – Australasian Pig Science Association (Inc) conference, Melbourne, Victoria www.apsa.asn. au
NOV 20 - 22 – International Tropical Agriculture Conference, Brisbane, Queensland www.tropagconference. org
2018
MAR 3 - 6 – Annual Meeting of the American Association of Swine, San Diego, California, US www.aasv.org/ annmtg
MAR 21 – World Butchers’ Challenge, Belfast, Ireland www.facebook.com/ events/1038188022980633
JUN 18 - 20 – IPVS, Chongqing, China
JUN 20 - 22 – VIV Europe 2018, Utrecht, The Netherlands www.viveurope.nl/ en/Bezoeker.aspx
OCT 17 - 19 – Vietstock Expo & Forum, Saigon, Vietnam www.vietstock.org
How to supply event details: Send all details to Australian Pork Newspaper, PO Box 387, Cleveland, Qld 4163, fax: 07 3821 2637, email: ben@porknews.com.au
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WITH the start of the new financial year comes the announce- ments from the Depart- ment of Agriculture and Water Resources of suc- cessful proposals to be funded as part of round three of the Rural R&D for Profit program.
Commencing in 2017/18 and running over four years, Australian Pork Limited is involved in a couple of these projects.
The first of these is ‘Forewarned is fore- armed: equipping farm- ers and agricultural val- ue chains to proactively manage the impacts of extreme climate events’ that will be led by Meat & Livestock Australia.
This large project, worth $14.7 million including $6.2 million cash from DAWR, also involves cash contributions from Dairy Australia, Wine Australia, Grains Research and De- velopment Corporation, the Bureau of Meteorol- ogy, Suncorp, Department of Agriculture and Fisher- ies Queensland, the Uni- versity of Melbourne and the University of Southern Queensland.
Our investment will en- able APL to be involved in the project steering com- mittee.
The Bureau of Meteorol- ogy will conduct research to deliver forecasts of the likelihood of climate ex- tremes on multi-week and seasonal timescales – be- yond the traditional sev- en-day weather forecast.
It will provide farmers with the first-ever long- range forecasts of extreme climate events as well as options for a wide range of farm level and agricul- tural industry operational
and investment decisions to potentially decrease the impacts of extreme cli- mate events on farm.
The project will develop new strategies to inte- grate these forecasts with agricultural decisions and enable risk management strategies to be developed that allow farmers to pro- actively prepare for these events.
APL will also be in- volved in ‘Wastes to profits: Technologies and business models for the management of wastes in the animal industries’, which will also be led by MLA.
This exciting project will involve the develop- ment of new advanced an- aerobic digestion technol- ogies and business mod- els to capture a market opportunity in excess of $100 million per annum by converting wastes from the red meat, dairy, pork and municipal industries into valuable products, in- cluding bioplastics, resins and fertilisers.
The project has a budget of $13.9 million over four years and involves a large number of organisations including MLA, Austral- ian Meat Processor Cor- poration, Dairy Australia, MLA Donor Company, four universities and sev- en industry partners.
We look forward to get- ting these projects under way and updating you on outcomes as they come to hand.
Waste to Revenue
The APL-led project ‘Waste to revenue: novel fertilisers and feeds’, a round one Rural R&D4P project supported by DAWR, Dairy Australia, Sugar Research Aus- tralia, MLA and RIRDC Chicken Meat is deliver- ing promising outcomes to industry.
Results from the Univer- sity of Queensland have shown it is technically feasible to treat wastewa- ter from primary indus- tries to produce a high- protein product for future feed applications.
Analysis of purple pho- totrophic bacteria extract- ed from domestic waste- water showed it had a high crude protein content (58 percent).
The use and suitability of this pelletised product as a potential fish feed substitute is now being explored in feeding trials for farmed fish such as barramundi and salmon.
The nutritive, agronom- ic and economic benefits of amending soils with high-quality composts compared to standard ma- nures is being investigated at the University of West-
ern Australia.
It has been shown that
applying compost to dairy pastures in WA offers the potential to reduce carbon and nitrogen mineralisa- tion.
Retaining higher levels of carbon and nitrogen in soils leads to better soil function, structure and stability.
A trial assessing micro- algae biomass produced from piggery waste as a fertiliser found shoot production of wheat in- creased by 85 percent when compared to syn- thetic fertiliser.
It was suggested that the microalgae could be acting as a bio-stimulant – but how microalgaes may be improving plant growth and development is still being explored. ‘Health for Wealth’ post-mortem feedback reporting
Activities as part of the APL-led ‘Health for Wealth’ RuralR&D4P project, funded in round two, are now under way.
This project aims to de- velop a nationally stand- ardised approach to data collection for a range of disease-related carcass and offal condemnations for feedback to beef, goat, pork and sheep producers.
It is envisaged that such a system will allow pro- ducers to monitor disease prevalence in their live- stock and make informed decisions to maximise yield outcomes.
A business case has now been completed and is available on the project’s website (australianpork. com.au/industry-focus/re search/health4wealth).
This work has built on learnings gained from
previous APL research to estimate costs associated with partial carcass con- demnations.
The next steps for pork will be to develop a uni- form abattoir data feed- back language for consist- ent recording of a com- mon core group of con- ditions/diseases and their severity/prevalence.
A small focus group will be established, compris- ing producers, processors, pig veterinarians and reg- ulators, to assist with this.
We have also been using an online system to gain feedback from a variety of producers, processors and veterinarians on a number of key issues to inform the future direction of project activities.
If you have received an invite and would still like to participate, please feel free to log on and contrib- ute your ideas.
I’d also like to thank all those who have provided feedback on using the sys- tem to date.
APL call for tender
Proposals submitted in response to the 2017/18 call for tender have now been reviewed.
I’d like to take this op- portunity to thank all re- search providers for their proposals and the review- ers for their time in pro- viding feedback to APL on these submissions.
We are anticipating the successful applicants will be notified within the next week.
For further informa- tion on any of the topics discussed in this article, please do not hesitate to contact me on 0423 056 045 or at heather.chan non@australianpork.com. au
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by HEATHER CHANNON Acting Research and Innovation General Manager