Supporting Participants
Supporting Participants - Beef CRC - Beef Genetic Technologies
| Australian Lot Feeders' Association |
| The Australian Lot Feeders' Association (ALFA) represents feedlots in Australia at every level, as the industry’s national peak body. ALFA directly represents its feedlot and associate members and does not have state branches and a costly hierarchy. The Association’s mission is to lead the industry in a manner that fosters excellence and integrity; improves the feedlot business environment; and ensure its community standing. |
| Cattle Council of Australia |
| The Cattle Council’s main objective is to represent and promote the interests of Australian beef cattle producers. This is achieved through wide and regular consultation with, and policy advice to, key industry organisations, relevant Federal Government Departments and other bodies regarding issues of national and international importance. |
| CSIRO |
| CSIRO is Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. As one of the world's largest and most diverse scientific global research organisations its work touches every aspect of Australian life: from the molecules that build life to the molecules in space. Working from sites across the nation and around the globe, CSIRO’s 6500 staff are focused on providing new ways to improve your quality of life, as well as the economic and social performance of a number of industry sectors through research and development. CSIRO was a Core Partner of CRCI and CRCII. |
| Department of Agriculture and Food, WA |
| The Department of Agriculture and Food assists the State's Agriculture, Food and Fibre sector to be sustainable and profitable, with a clear focus on export-led growth. The Department enhances the international competitiveness of the State's agribusiness by working with them to meet the increasingly demanding standards for safety and quality of food and fibre products produced in an environmentally sustainable way. DAFWA was a Supporting Partner of CRCII. |
| Murdoch University |
| Murdoch University was established in 1973 as a research university and is committed to the pursuit of excellence and has achieved an international reputation for the quality of its teaching and research. Murdoch makes a difference – many of Murdoch’s research projects have resulted in benefits to society, including plant disease control, animal health, clean air, waste treatment and environmental technology. The University takes pride in the fact that it has some of the best qualified academic staff in Australia. With a student population of 12,000, Murdoch is small enough to support excellent staff student relations, yet is large enough to provide state-of-the-art facilities, excellent student services and a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Murdoch University was a Supporting Partner of CRCII. |
| National Livestock Research Institute, Korea |
| Since 1994, the Institute has been carrying out research and development of the livestock agricultural technology. The areas of research being carried out are in the fields of livestock improvement, reproduction, preservation of genetic resources, nutrition, physiology, livestock feeding, utilisation of livestock excreta as resources, improvement of livestock housing and environment, quality enhancement of livestock product and production and utilisation techniques of roughage and forage crops. |
| Northern Pastoral Group |
| Signatories to the Northern Pastoral Group’s collective commitment to the CRC for Beef Genetic Technologies range from Australia’s largest landholders and cattle herds to small, but innovative and influential family partnerships. Together, they control about 46 million hectares and 1.63 million cattle, representing about 6% of Australia’s land mass and 6.2% of the national beef herd. Many of these companies and individuals were sponsors of the CRC for Cattle and Beef Industry (Meat Quality) and supporting partners of the CRC for Cattle and Beef Quality. Their very significant levels of support are additional to sponsorship that this group contributes through its industry levies to bodies such as Meat and Livestock Australia, Australian Lot Feeders’ Association, Australian Livestock Export Corporation and the Australian Meat Processor Corporation. Hence, the total sponsorship arrangements by the Northern Pastoral Group of Companies represent a major and very significant contribution to the Beef CRC. The individual organisations contributing to the Northern Pastoral Group include AgForce Queensland (“Belmont” and “Brian Pastures”); Australian Agricultural Company; Colonial Agricultural Company; C&R Briggs, “Cona Creek”; Consolidated Pastoral Company; J& SM Halberstater, “Mandalay”; S Kidman & Co; EA and G Maynard, “Mt Eugene”; GE and J McCamley, “Tartrus”; MDH Pastoral Company; North Australian Pastoral Company; Stanbroke Pastoral Company. |
| The Ohio State University, USA |
| The Ohio State University is one of the top academic campuses in the USA for undergraduate and graduate education in Animal Sciences. It has a national and international reputation for being a leader in developing new knowledge in the biological sciences for food producing animals and horses, and dissemination of this knowledge to the scientific community and public. The Ohio State University's undergraduate enrolment for all campuses totals 44,720 with 87% on the Columbus campus. In addition to the undergraduate population, there are 10,339 graduate students and 3,195 professional students enrolled. OSU offers 174 undergraduate majors, 111 master’s degree programs and 93 doctoral degree programs. The Department of Animal Science supports research facilities and animals at the main campus in Columbus, at the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center in Wooster and at several research branches located throughout the State. Complementary facilities include resources at Ohio State's other professional program areas: Biology, Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, Chemistry, Mathematics, Physical Sciences and Computer Sciences. |
