Our agricultural analysts and consultants are on the cutting-edge of sustainable agricultural tools and technology. We help farmers, producers and agricultural companies refine their processes to reduce their environmental footprints and improve production outcomes, where possible. Below is a sample of our current and completed projects.
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Integrity Ag & Environment specialises in agri-environmental research and development for a range of clients locally and internationally.
Completed Projects
Egg Industry Environmental Guideline Update / AEL
Napco Carbon Neutral Beef Project / MLA
www.queenslandcountrylife.com.au/story/6290745/napco-delivers-carbon-neutral-beef-on-a-plate/?cs=4733
Napco Carbon Neutral Beef Project / MLA
www.queenslandcountrylife.com.au/story/6290745/napco-delivers-carbon-neutral-beef-on-a-plate/?cs=4733
Napco Carbon Neutral Beef Project / MLA
www.queenslandcountrylife.com.au/story/6290745/napco-delivers-carbon-neutral-beef-on-a-plate/?cs=4733
Napco Carbon Neutral Beef Project / MLA
www.queenslandcountrylife.com.au/story/6290745/napco-delivers-carbon-neutral-beef-on-a-plate/?cs=4733
Napco Carbon Neutral Beef Project / MLA
www.queenslandcountrylife.com.au/story/6290745/napco-delivers-carbon-neutral-beef-on-a-plate/?cs=4733
Napco Carbon Neutral Beef Project / MLA
www.queenslandcountrylife.com.au/story/6290745/napco-delivers-carbon-neutral-beef-on-a-plate/?cs=4733
Napco Carbon Neutral Beef Project / MLA
www.queenslandcountrylife.com.au/story/6290745/napco-delivers-carbon-neutral-beef-on-a-plate/?cs=4733
Napco Carbon Neutral Beef Project / MLA
www.queenslandcountrylife.com.au/story/6290745/napco-delivers-carbon-neutral-beef-on-a-plate/?cs=4733
Napco Carbon Neutral Beef Project / MLA
www.queenslandcountrylife.com.au/story/6290745/napco-delivers-carbon-neutral-beef-on-a-plate/?cs=4733
Napco Carbon Neutral Beef Project / MLA
www.queenslandcountrylife.com.au/story/6290745/napco-delivers-carbon-neutral-beef-on-a-plate/?cs=4733
Napco Carbon Neutral Beef Project / MLA
www.queenslandcountrylife.com.au/story/6290745/napco-delivers-carbon-neutral-beef-on-a-plate/?cs=4733
Napco Carbon Neutral Beef Project / MLA
www.queenslandcountrylife.com.au/story/6290745/napco-delivers-carbon-neutral-beef-on-a-plate/?cs=4733
Napco Carbon Neutral Beef Project / MLA
www.queenslandcountrylife.com.au/story/6290745/napco-delivers-carbon-neutral-beef-on-a-plate/?cs=4733
Napco Carbon Neutral Beef Project / MLA
www.queenslandcountrylife.com.au/story/6290745/napco-delivers-carbon-neutral-beef-on-a-plate/?cs=4733
Napco Carbon Neutral Beef Project / MLA
www.queenslandcountrylife.com.au/story/6290745/napco-delivers-carbon-neutral-beef-on-a-plate/?cs=4733
Publications and News
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Footprinting
- Strategies to reduce environmental impacts from textiles: Extending clothing wear life compared to fibre displacement assessed using consequential LCA
- Reducing environmental impacts from garments through best practice garment use and care, using the example of a Merino wool sweater.
- Building consensus on water use assessment of livestock production systems and supply chains: Outcome and recommendations from the FAO LEAP Partnership.
- Environmental impacts associated with the production, use, and end-of-life of a woollen garment.
- Clothing lifespans: What should be measured and how.
- Review of Methodological Choices in LCA-Based Textile and Apparel Rating Tools: Key Issues and Recommendations Relating to Assessment of Fabrics Made from Natural Fibre Types.
- Resource use and GHG emissions from three wool production regions in Australia.
- Resource use and environmental impacts from Australian export lamb production: LCA.
- Resource use and environmental impacts from beef production in eastern Australia investigated using LCA.
- Resource use and GHG emission from grain finishing beef cattle in seven Australian Feedlots.
- Resource use and environmental impacts from Australian chicken meat production.
- Environmental impacts and resource use from Australian pork production assessed using LCA: 1. GHG emissions. & 2. Water, energy and land footprints.
- Resource use and GHG intensity of Australian beef production:1981 – 2010.
- Application of LCA to sheep production systems: Investigating co-production of wool and meat using case studies from major global producers.
- Environmental impacts and resource use of Australian beef and lamb exported to the USA determined using LCA.
- An LCA approach to quantifying GHG emissions from land-use change for beef production in eastern Australia.
- Quantifying carbon sequestration on sheep grazing land in Australia for LCA studies.
- Livestock meat processing: inventory data and methods for handling co-production for major livestock species and meat products.
- Impacts of land-use change on the assessment of water use in grazing systems and interactions with carbon sequestration.
- Assessing agricultural soil acidification and nutrient management in LCA.
- Red meat production in Australia: LCA and comparison with overseas studies.
- Review of water assessment methodologies and application to Australian agriculture
- LCA of Australian egg production, in Proceedings of the LCA Food 2010 VII conference, Italy
- LCA of two Australian pork supply chains.
- Accounting for water use in Australian red meat production.
Agri-Environmental Research
- Environmental impacts of the Australian poultry industry: 1. Chicken meat production.
- Environmental impacts of the Australian poultry industry: 2. Egg production.
- Establishing soil nutrient distribution zones across free-range egg farms to guide practical nutrient management strategies.
- Reducing environmental impacts from garments through best practice garment use and care, using the example of a Merino wool sweater.
- Potential contaminants and hazards in alternative chicken bedding materials and proposed guidance levels.
- Analysis of resource use and GHG emissions from four Australian meat production systems, with an investigation of mitigation opportunities and trade-offs.
- Nitrous oxide, Ammonia and Methane from Australian Meat Chicken Houses measured under commercial operating conditions and with mitigation strategies applied.
- Methane, nitrous oxide and ammonia emissions from a conventional Australian piggery with short and long hydraulic retention time effluent storage.
- Emissions of nitrous oxide, ammonia and methane from Australian layer hen manure storage with a mitigation strategy applied.
- Methane, nitrous oxide and ammonia emissions from pigs housed on litter and from stockpiling of spent litter.
- Soil nitrate and phosphorus accumulates rapidly with a non-uniform distribution in two outdoor pig areas.
- Field measurement of beef pen manure methane and nitrous oxide reveals a surprise for inventory calculations.
- Water use by livestock: A global perspective for a regional issue.
- Ruminant enteric methane mitigation: a review.
- An investigation of lot-fed cattle drinking water consumption under Australian conditions.
- Water usage of individual activities within Australian cattle feedlots, in Agriculture Technologies in a Changing Climate.
- Energy usage of individual activities within Australian cattle feedlots, in Agriculture Technologies in a Changing Climate.
- Trends in the environmental impacts from the Australian pork industry: 1980-2020.
- Nutritional comparison of chicken and plant protein
IAE in the News
- Harvest Road to cut carbon emissions | Farm Weekly | WA
- Water security in the chicken meat industry | AgriFutures Australia
- Big cut to feedlot emissions from inventory revision | North QLD Register
- Carbon assessed history made at weaner sales | Weekly Times
- New guide to carbon neutrality for feedlots | MLA
- Katanning Research Station – Strategy to achieve carbon neutrality by 2030 | Agriculture and Food
- Coles expands carbon neutral beef range | Retail World Magazine
- Australia’s chicken and egg industries aim for carbon neutral | Poultry World
- Coles expands industry–leading carbon neutral beef range | Farmer News
- Carbon Neutral Wool and Wool Tops | Fuhrmann-Argentina
- Media release | Coles Group
- Supermarket giant says Coles Finest carbon-neutral beef to deliver ‘real change’ | Countryman
- AWTA Wool Testing – Wool for Future Markets | AWTA
- Woolmark launches new Sustainability and Wool online course for textile and fashion industry | Woolmark
- Coles’ carbon neutral beef brand unpacked at AMPC conference | Farm Online | ACT
- IWTO 2016 Congress | Wool Industries
- MLA releases guide to carbon neutrality for feedlots | International Leather Maker
- Wool Industry Releases First Full Wool LCA | Renewable Carbon News
- SSF hosts inaugural Consultative Committee meeting | Sheep Sustainability
- Sheep Sustainability Framework’s first meeting to determine direction towards sheep sustainability | Stock & Land
- Time to re-run the numbers of carbon farming, webinar hears | Beef Central
- More data needed on soil’s ability to store carbon | Beef Central
- Harvest Road Group Carbon Neutral supply chains 2025 | MLA
- Woolmark learning centre contribution | LinkedIn
Online Contributions
- World Environment Day, Saturday 5 June: Aussie chicken and plant-based alternatives: don’t believe the hype
- Stephen Wiedemann on Wool Life Cycle Assessment – Wool Academy Podcast (elisabethvandelden.com)
- Wool’s Environmental Credentials • Stephen Wiedemann, Chair of IWTO’s LCA Technical Advisory Group – YouTube
- Feedlot animal efficiency helps cut beef sector emissions – Entegra Signature Structures
- ALFA/MLA Moving Towards Carbon Neutrality Webinar – Recording – Feedlot TECH
- Water security in the chicken meat industry | AgriFutures Australia
- DPIRD KRF Carbon Footprint CN 2030 Strategy Report
- Are Plant-Based Alternatives Better for the Environment that Chicken? Dr Joanna
- Beef herd management to reduce emissions, methodology awaiting Department of Environment approval. Stephen Wiedemann, science consultant – ABC News
- Reducing methane emissions while increasing business profitability – YouTube
- Sustainability and wool course | Woolmark Learning Centre
- 2020 Wool Connect
- 2021 Wool Connect
- 2022 NFC Conference
Presentations
- Wilmot Field Day 2023 | MaiaGrazing
- Climate Change and Organic Livestock | Australian Organic
- Wimmera CMA | Maximising Ecosystem Opportunities to Fit Your Business: Carbon | WCMA
- Beef and coal are key drivers of Australia’s high nitrogen footprint | Uni of Melbourne
- Speakers | SmartBeef Conference
- SmartBeef Bites | ALFA
- Carbon Accounting for Australian Pasture Systems Webinar | Holbrook Landcare Network
- Maximising Ecosystem Opportunities to fit your business: Carbon | Landcarer
- Moving towards carbon neutrality webinar | MLA
- AMPC Innovation Conference | AMPC
- Cashmere Conference – Wool Connect Community | Schneider
- Wool and sustainability in spotlight in free online course | Ragtrader
- 2021 Livestock Advisor Update SA | SALC
- Opportunities, challenges, technology and marketing at Wagyu conference | Seedstock Central
- BeefConnect webinar: tapping into environmental markets and reducing emissions | Beef Central
- EU Product Environmental Footprint – what’s it all about?
- Carbon accounting, carbon neutrality and how this fits with regenerative wool
- Carbon neutrality: What it means for wool
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Combining science, strategy, and technology in partnership with motivated leaders, organisations, and industries to reimagine sustainability for positive impact.
