• Intensive Livestock Environmental R&D and Technology Transfer

Robyn Tucker has undertaken environmental research and development for Australian Pork Limited (APL) for the pig industry, and for Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA) for the beef feedlot sector.  Robyn’s strong contacts with the pig and feedlot  industries provide a good practical basis to this research. 

Robyn has also co-authored numerous intensive livestock guidelines, technotes and manuals for APL, MLA and Victorian Department of Environment and Primary Industries. 


Guidelines and Policy Documents:
  • National Environmental Guidelines for Piggeries

  • National Environmental Guidelines for Rotational Outdoor Piggeries

  • Environmental Guidelines for the Australian Egg Industry

  • National Environmental Sustainability Strategy for the Pork Industry

  • Guidelines for Victorian Dairy Feedpads and Freestalls

  • Piggery Environmental Risk Assessment  - self assessment 




Journal Publications:
  • Accounting for Water Use in Australian Red Meat Production

  • Chemicals of Concern in Feedlot Wastes: Concentrations, Effects and Attenuation

  • Diversity and Abundance of Zoonotic Pathogens and Indicators in Manures of Feedlot Cattle in Australia

  • Feedlot Odor Emissions Following Heavy Rainfall

  • The Effect of Ration on Waste Management and Odour Control in Feedlots

  • Occurrence of Ectoparasiticides in Australian Beef Cattle Feedlot Wastes 

  • Red Meat Production in Australia - A Life Cycle Assessment and Comparison with Other Nations

  • Waste Minimisation at Feedlot by Ration Modification






Technical publications:

  • Nutrient Extraction from Spent Bedding and Pond Sludge

  • Chemical Contaminants in feedlot wastes: Concentrations, effects and attenuation

  • Alternative Systems for Piggery Effluent Treatment

  • Composting and Pasteurising Spent Litter (meat chickens)       

  • Designing Better Feedlots - 

  • Development of Indicators of Sustainability for Effluent Reuse in the Intensive Livestock Industries: Piggeries and Cattle Feedlots 

  • Environmental Sustainability Assessment of the Australian Feedlot Industry: Part E - Review of Lot Fed Cattle Water Consumption (PDF attached – FLOT.328):

  • Guidelines for the Safe Management of Feedlot Wastes 

  • Land Application of Spent Litter (meat chickens)      

  • Litter Clean Out (meat chickens)        

  • Lot Feeding in Australia - A Survey of the Australian Lot Feeding Industry 

  • Lamb lot feeding : opportunities in the Wimmera Mallee pipeline region 

  • Manure Production and Spent Litter Composition (meat chickens) 

  • National Environmental Management System for the Meat Chicken Industry 

  • Treatment Technologies for Feedlot Effluent Reuse 







Technotes:

  • Soil Monitoring for Rotational Outdoor Piggeries

  • Design and Management of Outdoor Free Range Areas for Pigs

  • Land and Water Protection Measures for Rotational Outdoor Piggeries

  • Promoting More Even Distribution of Nutrients in Rotational Outdoor Piggeries

  • Developing a Nutrient Management Plan for a Rotational Outdoor Piggery

  • Feedlotting Notes – A Collection of Farmnotes