Location: Rangers Valley feedlot, Glen Innes NSW
Capacity: 40,000 head
2015 Top 25 position: 6 (33,250 head); 2003 position: 12
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 Tablelands.
Since the yard started operations in 1988, it has focussed heavily on longfed 270-300 day Angus cattle designed to express optimum marbling. More recently, Wagyu cattle have been added to the programs, fed even longer.
It can be argued that it…
