Join us for the next AgriFutures Chicken Meat Program Extension Webinar, featuring two research projects focused on measuring and reducing the environmental impact of chicken meat production.
Mary-Frances (Fran) Copley, Senior Consultant – Agriculture and Economics at Integrity Ag, will share a project scoping a shared feed ingredient database. Feed production is responsible for most of the environmental impact in chicken meat production – up to 80% of greenhouse gas emissions, 90% of water use and nearly all land use impacts. While there is good data for major grains, substantial gaps remain for ingredients like imported soy, synthetic amino acids and other additives, making it difficult to accurately benchmark the industry’s footprint. The project will identify these gaps, build a shared database focused on feed-related emissions, use case studies to show how impacts vary across supply chains, and estimate the cost of expanding the database in future.
Mark Dunlop, Senior Principal Scientist at the Queensland Department of Primary Industries, will present a project assessing cotton gin by-product (CGB) for poultry bedding, and the opportunity to use spent litter as a crop fertiliser. With around 250,000 tonnes of CGB generated annually – much of it near key poultry regions such as Tamworth and Griffith – the project explores a circular economy between the chicken meat and cotton industries, underpinned by a biosecurity risk assessment and a lifecycle assessment of the environmental benefits.
Date: Thursday, 12 November 2026
Time: 2pm AEDT
Location: Online via Zoom
12 November 2026
Online via Zoom
To watch recordings of previous Chicken Meat Extension webinars on topics including broiler nutrition, litter management, biosecurity, environment, gut health and nutrition, head to the AgriFutures Chicken Meat Extension site.
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