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Farm Sustainability Dashboard

The Farm Sustainability Dashboard has been designed to improve industry best practice and meet evolving community expectations. It has been created for business owners and is appropriate for farms of all sizes.

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Leading Research: tagged carbon

  • Sustainable feed to optimize layers’ productive life

    This is a highly beneficial project which will reduce the carbon footprint, reduce feed cost, and promote layer life. This will be done by replacing soybean meal (SBM) with combination of canola meal (CM) and insect meal (BSFL: black soldier fly larvae).

  • Carbon calculator tool for the egg industry

    Australian Eggs will be producing a spreadsheet-based calculator which will enable farmers to input data to determine their carbon footprint and total on-farm emissions.

  • Carbon and environmental impacts of poultry production: 2020 and beyond

    Climate change action is a global priority for governments, business and industries. The egg industry produces highly efficient, high-quality food products with a relatively low environmental footprint but along with every sector, there is an imperative to reduce impacts over time.

  • Layer Hen Manure Analysis Report

    Poultry layer manure and litter composition data are essential for accurately determining sustainable application rates of manure to crops and pastures.This study collected some 20 samples of manure and litter from five different layer production systems from all major production regions in Australia.

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