No guesswork, nutrition’s all in the science

How does a woman hailing from the American Midwest find herself in Caroona, NSW? We catch up with animal researcher and mill supervisor Abby Nortrup as she shares her tale of two countries and why…
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How is the feedlot industry contributing to a sustainable future?

The Australian grain fed beef industry is committed to a wider sustainability plan known as the Australian Beef Sustainability Framework. The Framework aims to create a thriving industry that improves the wellbeing of people, animals…
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Inside 6HEAD with chef Sean Hall

Life could’ve gone in a very different direction for Sean Hall. In his early 20s he was faced with a choice between playing rugby professionally or heading to culinary school. Today, lovers of premium steak…
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Four Daughters forging farming future

Four Daughters started the way of many good ideas before it – in a bar. At Beef Week 2018 Karen’s husband Dan Penfold fortuitously pulled up a seat beside a young Chinese business couple. Always…
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Celebrity chef Matt Moran gets excited over world’s first lower emission seaweed-fed steak

Australian innovator FutureFeed is serving a world’s first this National Science Week, dishing up sustainable seaweed-fed steak with celebrity chef Matt Moran. The powerhouse seaweed behind the lower emission beef is Asparagopsis, a red seaweed that naturally…
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Healthy cattle equals healthy beef

Quality beef comes from happy, healthy, quality cattle. Quality is purely an outcome of care – raising happy, healthy cattle is the only way to produce top quality beef In the grain fed beef industry,…
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Merivale Exec Chef Jordan Toft on Travelling North and Cooking with Beef

Established in 1824, the Australian Agricultural Company (AACo) is Australia’s largest cattle and beef producer and the oldest continually operating company in Australia. AACo owns and operates a strategic balance of stations throughout Queensland and…
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Australian grain fed beef producer driving enhanced leadership in social outcomes

The Australian beef sector accounts for almost a quarter of the country’s total agricultural production and in a first for the Australian agricultural industry, a premium Queensland beef producer, Stockyard, has entered into a sustainability-linked…
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Grain fed beef producers open up gate for teachers

Smithfield Cattle Co. operate two grain fed beef producing properties in Queensland and hosted a networking event for a group of Wide Bay Agriculture Teachers in July 2021. Celebrating 35 years of producing grain fed…
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Start ‘em young; Thomas Foods International Feedlot opens farming future for next generation

TFI Feedlot in South Australia’s Murray Mallee region set out to educate the region’s youngest residents about agriculture and entrench the newly expanded Thomas Foods International Feedlot in the local community. Food Connect began as…
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