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The LPA NVD is a legal document that guarantees on-farm practices meet LPA requirements and communicates the food safety and treatment status of every animal every time it moves along the value chain – between properties, to saleyards, or to processors.

Find out how to search the PIC register, so you can record NLIS transfers, complete NVDs and identify stray livestock using their NLIS tag.

Find out more about the current LPA auditing arrangements.

  Key points:  Be prepared to deal with hot and dry weather conditions over spring and summer.  Continue to manage your property in accordance with the LPA rules and standards.  The MLA drought management page can help you prepare, manage and recover from drought.  The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) is expecting hot and dry conditions for much of Australia during spring and summer. During September, BOM confirmed that an El Niño weather pattern is active over the Pacific for the first time in eight years, while a positive Indian Ocean Dipole has also developed. Together, these two climate drivers tend to...

Just six to seven minutes is all it takes for Kerwee Feedlot Livestock Manager, Stevie-Lee Wayman, to complete a livestock consignment of 200 head or more grainfed cattle using the electronic National Vendor Declaration (eNVD) system.

With summer approaching, it’s important to obtain a Commodity Vendor Declaration (CVD) from suppliers when purchasing livestock feed.  Livestock Production Assurance (LPA) accredited producers are urged to source feed from suppliers who are willing to vouch for its content by providing a CVD. Completed CVDs should be filed with other farm records. The CVD communicates food safety risks of introduced feed and it is needed to keep animals safe from chemical contamination or illness. Managing risks associated with introduced stock feed is a key requirement under the LPA program’s Module 3 ‘Fodder crop, grain and pasture treatments and stock foods’....

With floods, bushfires and other disasters more prevalent than ever, know what you can do to protect your stock and property.

A property identification code (PIC) reconciliation is a stocktake process where the National Livestock Identification System (NLIS) tags currently on your property are compared to the tags recorded on your PIC in the NLIS database.

From now on, only the current version (0720) of the LPA NVD will be accepted for all species of livestock movements

Livestock health and wellbeing is fundamental to the success and sustainability of every farm – it’s also critical to upholding Australia’s high standards of food safety and quality. Red meat producers have a responsibility to meet their animal welfare obligations for their livestock, consumers, and their enterprises.