Projects & Research

Productive Nutrition undertake research and applied projects:

• Women in Agriculture (The Shores, West Beach - Monday, 22 March 2010)

This workshop was delivered as part of the Recognising Women Farmers program, supported by the Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry

• SA Lamb Young Guns (2008 - 2010)

Productive Nutrition has been involved in running two of the SA Young Guns producer groups which was an initiative of the SA Lamb Development Team giving young producers the opportunity to meet, learn and share ideas. (2008 - 2010)

• National Code of Practice for Intensive Sheep and Lamb Feeding Systems (ALF/SCA/MLA, 2007-2010)
  • Information sheet (pdf)
  • Registration of interest
  
  
• Best practice nutritional management of grazed rangelands pasture plants
  (Outback Lakes Group, 2007 - 2009)
  • Fact Sheet (pdf)
  • Project report (pdf)
    
    
• Alpacas as lamb protectors (MLA PIRD, 2008)


• Best practice for production feeding of lambs: a review of the literature (MLA, 2007)
  
  
• The nutritive value of rangeland plants of southern and western Australia – A review of the literature and a scoping study to demonstrate the inconsistencies between the current system of nutritive analysis and animal performance (AWI, 2006)
  
  
• Lamb Feedlot Stocktake (MLA, 2006)
  
  
• A review of the practical component of the agricultural programs at the University of Adelaide (The University of Adelaide, 2006)
  
  
• Towards a better understanding of animal nutrition in the SA pastoral zone (CNEFAP, 2004)
  
  
• Roseworthy Lamb Feedlot Feasibility report (The University of Adelaide, 2004)
  
  
• The nutritive value of rangeland pastures: A review of the literature (CNEFAP, 2003)
• Fact sheet (pdf, 463 kb)