Welcome to the red meat innovation site!
Meat & Livestock Australia undertakes
research into all aspects of the Australian red meat industry. This website contains information for the off-farm (processing and value adding) sector of the Australian red meat processing industry.
Learn more about MLA's research and development activities in each innovation area.
MLA acknowledges the matching funds provided by the Australian Government to support its research and development portfolio.
If you would like to know more about MLA's products and services and how they might benefit your organisation, choose a product or service from the following areas:
MLA publishes many useful project reports as a result of its R&D activities. These are available to members of the Australian red meat industry to improve the awareness of R&D outcomes and developments.
Useful information about MLA's collaborative programs (including the Partners in Innovation MDC program), graduate and undergraduate programs is available in the Professional Development and Working with MLA sections of this web site.
*Latest publication*
Industry environmental sustainability review 2010
This Industry Environmental Sustainability Review is the third in the series. It aims to quantitatively assess how the red meat industry has improved environmental performance in recent years, allow processors to assess how changed practices and facilities have resulted in better performance since the previous study, allow comparison against objective industry performance data and allow external stakeholders to objectively assess how the industry as a whole has improved and demonstrated continual improvement in environmental sustainability.
The full report is available to download.

The Advancing the Future conference was held on June 9-10, 2011 at the Sebel Hotel, Melbourne.
Presentations from the conference are now available.