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REGISTER NOW! MLP RESULTS SEMINARS ACROSS AUSTRALIA
Join us for a one-day industry seminar sharing the results from the Merino Lifetime Productivity project.
The Merino Lifetime Productivity (MLP) Results Seminar will include:
- Why the MLP? What was the MLP designed to tell us? What did the project do and who are the results impacting?
- The importance of setting a breeding objective: How can the MLP insights guide the development of a successful breeding objective — for both ram breeders and ram buyers?
- Selection for lifetime productivity: How do you select for lifetime productivity? What on-farm protocols, assessments and information help you get the most accurate selection decisions and best bang for your buck?
- What the MLP has revealed about profit drivers: Findings from the economic analysis of over 2 million data points.
- What have the MLP Add-on projects delivered? More information on hard-to-measure traits, flystrike, feed efficiency, footrot, resilience, eating quality, and teats and udders.
- MLP enhancing industry tools: The impact of the MLP and MLP Add-on projects data for the Sheep Genetics MERINOSELECT analysis and the 2022, 2024 and upcoming 2028 MERINOSELECT analysis updates, Merino Reference Flock, Flock Profile, and Genomic-only Breeding Values.
- MLP site panel session and Q&A: Hear from the local MLP site sheep classers and site representatives about how the MLP outcomes fit the production systems in your region, getting the most out of classing and what you can do on farm to optimise gains in lifetime profitability.
Register now to hear all of this and more!
Perth (Pingelly MLP site) | Tue, 23 Jun 2026
Dubbo (MerinoLink and Macquarie MLP sites) | Fri, 3 Jul 2026
Balmoral (Balmoral MLP site) | Thu, 23 Jul 2026
Armidale (New England MLP site) | Fri, 7 Aug 2026
If you’d like more background or the MLP results to date, please visit www.wool.com/MLP.
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