Meat Logic combines lamb carcass and processing data

Measurements feed a single dashboard

Meat & Livestock Australia reported on 20 October 2026 that Adelaide University helped develop Meat Logic for lamb and sheepmeat processors. The platform brings objective carcass measurements together with weight, yield, eating-quality, labour, profitability and carcass-to-carton records. Its initial work addressed how processors can use fat-depth and other measurement data when planning cuts and trimming.

Four days of inventory were sorted in a trial

At one processor trial site, researchers analysed carcass inventory accumulated over four days and changed its allocation to boning-room cutting plans. Adelaide University researcher Sean Miller reported an additional A$1.50 to A$2.00 per head from that sorting exercise. MLA described producer feedback from the platform and expansion beyond sheepmeat as future uses; the published result comes from the single processor trial.

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