THERE’S been a strong start for the National Beef Carcase Competition being held as part of Beef 2024 in Rockhampton next May, with competition entries already starting to be slaughtered and assessed recently at four beef processing plants across Eastern Australia.
Some of the early competition kills have taken place at NH Foods’ Borthwicks plant at Mackay in North Queensland; Nolan Meats at Gympie, north of Brisbane; JBS Beef City, near Toowoomba; and HW Greenham at Smithton, Tasmania. Some 175 competition entries have already been assessed.
In total, a record 25 beef processing plants…
