Beef Central’s exclusive Top 25 Lotfeeders list ranks the nation’s largest Lot Feeders, by one-time capacity. This authoritative list will be kept as a permanent feature on Beef Central to act as a handy reference tool for industry stakeholders.
WITH just the top four entries yet to be revealed, Beef Central’s Top 25 Lotfeeders report is now within sight of the finish line, making it worth pausing briefly to look at some of the statistics and trends we’ve unearthed. ..Read More
The scale of JBS Australia’s beef processing business requires a very big engine-room, and the company’s feedlot operations spanning six large feedyards stretching from Queensland to the Victorian border provide a solid foundation of high quality grainfed cattle on which to build each week’s kill…Read More
Beef Central, 24/04/2023
Charlie Mort was working with Primac on the Darling Downs when he saw the potential to utilise custom space in feedlots to provide abattoirs with what they most needed: a consistent and reliable supply of market-ready cattle…Read More
James Nason, 17/04/2023
NH Foods’ Whyalla Feedlot is currently expanding to its full capacity of 75,000 head, which will make it about level with Australia’s largest single site feedlot…Read More
Eric Barker, 19/04/2023
Grain feeding provides a central pillar to Teys Australia’s vast export and domestic beef output through beef processing plants across eastern Australia. The company owns and operates three large, geographically disparate yards in southern Queensland, central NSW and northern Victoria. ..Read More
Beef Central, 18/04/2023
While Australia’s lotfeeding industry is growing rapidly, the age profile of its staff appears to be heading in a different direction – with more young people, particularly women, working in feedlots…Read More
Eric Barker, 28/04/2023
No business on this year’s Top 25 Lotfeeders list has seen more profound changes in the size and scope of its operations than Australian Country Choice. ..Read More
Beef Central, 14/04/2023
The Stanbroke Feedlot at Chinchilla is a central hub of the large-scale Menegazzo family-owned, vertically-integrated Stanbroke supply chain…Read More
Beef Central, 06/04/2023
Few, if any, large-scale lotfeeding businesses worldwide have had the relentless, solitary, long-term focus on producing highly-marbled longfed beef as Rangers Valley near Glen Innes on the NSW New England Tableland…Read More
Jon Condon, 05/04/2023
As Australia’s lotfeeding sector looks to become fully shaded by 2026, some operators are now looking to take the next step and put permanent shed structures over pens…Read More
Eric Barker, 05/04/2023
Owned and operated by the Shearer-Smith siblings, Smithfield has moved up the list since 2015 – with the purchase of Sapphire Feedlot near Goondiwindi in 2016…Read More
Eric Barker, 04/04/2023
The Australian Agricultural Co is now at full 35,000 head feeding capacity across its two Queensland feedyards, and last year signalled the possibility of expansion in some form…Read More
Jon Condon, 03/04/2023