Old trees clue to claypan conversion
17 FEBRUARY 2025: A 1000-acre (404ha) pilot project restoring ancient floodplains in marginal Queensland country has seen decades of barren claypan transformed to deep green. It’s been a year since a five-person crew spent a week cutting contour banks around the seasonal Stonehenge Creek at Wellclose station, but already staff at the Australian Country Choice …
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SHARING INDUSTRY-SMARTS
4 FEBRUARY 2025: Laser-guided robotics and computerised cooling systems were topics discussed at this morning’s visit by secondary students to our Cannon Hill facility. The students at Brisbane’s The Industry School are learning the technical and trades skills necessary for Australia’s industries of the future … including food processing. They visited our engineering workshop as …
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TOM FOR FEED LOT FUTURE TEAM
14 JANUARY 2025: Australia’s feed lotting industry is developing its next-gen with the establishment of the Future Feeders Network (FFN) Committee … and we are proud to see Tom Harrington included in the line-up. Tom, our R&D manager, agribusiness, (below) was officially named as one of eight inaugural committee members on Friday. The committee has …
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SHORT LAIRAGE BOOSTS RETURNS: STUDY
16 DECEMBER 2024: Shorter waiting times before slaughter for cattle at ACC’s Cannon Hill processing facility could see a 4.64kg/carcase benefit, according to a new study. Shared across the wider Australian red-meat industry, the research findings could offer a way to improve economic returns for livestock producers and meat processors, and improve meat eating quality …
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FEEDLOTS APPOINTMENT FOR DAVID
22 NOVEMBER 2024: We are delighted to see our General Manager Feedlots, David Bailey, re-elected as a director of the peak industry group, Australian Lot Feeders’ Association (ALFA). David, who works from our Opal Creek facility (pictured below), was re-elected at ALFA’s recent Brisbane AGM. In its 54th year, ALFA serves close to 90% of …
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REAL-TIME SAVINGS IN DATA PILOT
14 NOVEMBER 2024: A pilot project we have undertaken with CSIRO and the DAFF could see savings amounting to $900m/year across Australian’s red meat industry.A team of digital scientists, led by CSIRO’s Dr Bob Barlow, connected data sets we shared from our meat chilling operations and found savings worth $60m/year for our Cannon Hill site.Dr …
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HANDING OVER THE REINS
5 NOVEMBER 2024: Our CEO Anthony Lee sat down with James Wagstaff, editor of the national AgJournal, to discuss the business of business succession for Australia’s largest family-owned and operated beef and cattle supply chain. It makes for enlightening reading. 20241030_Weekly Times – Ag Journal …
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BUSINESS AWARD HONOUR FOR ACC
26 OCTOBER 2024: We were honoured to receive the ANZ High-Growth Business Award and special mention in the Coraggio International Business Award at last night’s Lord Mayor’s Business Awards. Chief Commercial Officer Merrick Studders took to the Town Hall stage to accept the award, and to celebrate with export sales manager Alan Kropp. We thank …
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TEACHING AG-SMARTS TO NEXT-GEN
24 OCTOBER 2024: Two of our staff turned into teachers for a day at the annual Moo Baa Munch event in Toowoomba this week. Brad Taylor, manager, commodities & logistics at our Opal Creek feedlot, and Cannon Hill trainer Tony Kickert presented to more than 1000 primary and secondary students from 15 schools across the …
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MALAYSIAN FOOD EXPERTS VISIT CANNON HILL
23 OCTOBER 2024: Professionals from Malaysian government departments paid their first visit to an Australian meat processing plant this afternoon. The visitors reported they were impressed by the size of our Cannon Hill site and its operational systems. Senior workplace trainer Rick Jurd led the group which included representatives from Malaysia’s agriculture and fisheries, halal …
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