COVID-19 has profoundly affected us all - the way we live, the way we do business and the way we travel. On Thursday, August 20, AMPC hosted a COVID-19 webinar in collaboration with Respond Global and the Australian Meat Industry Council to provide our members with information on how best to handle the new situation we find ourselves in.
After extensive consultation with members and key stakeholders, AMPC published its Strategic Plan 2020-25 document on June 30 2020. You can read the full plan here.
Topics: AMPC Updates, AMPC, Board of Directors, strategy
AMPC, with support from its industry technical steering committee, engaged Southern Engineering Services Ltd (SES) to develop a Lamb Tunnel Boning alpha-prototype. It is now time for Australian processors to work with SES to develop this solution to a commercial outcome. AMPC is seeking up to five lamb processors who would now like to further develop this innovation with SES and AMPC.
Topics: AMPC Updates, innovation, AMPC, lamb, Processor
Topics: innovation, AMPC, research, Economics, costs, energy, Science
Currently state jurisdictions and the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment (DAWE) are working through the publishing process for the new standard, with an outcome expected soon.
Topics: AMPC Updates, AMPC, meat science, Project
Grant Melrose, who oversees continuous improvement management for vertically integrated processor John Dee in Queensland, has always lived and breathed agribusiness. But like so many in the sector, his early training was informal, learning from those who went before. About five years back he set himself on a path to formal learning – and it’s led him to the most interesting places.
Topics: ARLP, Scholarships, AMPC, leadership, Vocational training, CEE, Program 4
AMPC has teamed up with Curtin University’s School of Molecular and Life Sciences to tackle the $1.2 billion economic impact of food-borne diseases by developing a simple, efficient and more accurate genetic test that signals the presence of pathogens through a simple colour indicator.
Topics: Awards, innovation, AMPC, red meat, research, meat science
The Australian Meat Processor Corporation (AMPC) welcomes the announcement by the Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources, the Hon. David Littleproud MP, to review the nation’s rural innovation sector.
Topics: innovation, AMPC, red meat, research, government
Are you a young agricultural scientist, innovator or researcher with a big idea to help improve the sustainability and efficiency of the red meat processing sector?
Topics: Awards, Grants, ABARES, AMPC, red meat, research, meat science
Do you know an emerging leader in the red meat processing industry who is looking to take their leadership capability to the next level?
Topics: ARLP, Scholarships, innovation, AMPC, training, leadership
A new method to reduce E. coli and potential pathogenic bacteria in beef is this week undergoing further testing at the JBS abattoir at Scone, New South Wales.
Topics: innovation, AMPC, red meat, beef, research, meat science, MLA
AMPC had the opportunity to attend the 2018 LambEx conference in Perth last week, alongside our exhibition partners AMIC, MINTRAC and AUS-MEAT. It was great to work alongside these important industry bodies, sharing some of our research highlights and facilitating valuable conversations with AMPC and AMIC members about industry issues.
Topics: 2018, agriculture, AMPC, red meat, lamb, lambex2018, sheep, mintrac, ausmeat, AMIC
