Beefbank Ltd and Foodbank Australia have announced a national partnership, aimed at meeting the growing demand for much-needed protein, to help those doing it tough. Andrew Rodgers Not for Profit organisation, Foodbank, provides food relief to more than one million Australians every month and is facing an increase in the demand for its services, due […]

Iceberg spent about 1000 days in Josie and Blair Angus’ Sondella feedlot to return a carcase weight of 854kg. A NORTH Queensland bullock has potentially become Australia’s largest ever ox, returning a dressed carcase weight of 854kg. Four-year-old “Iceberg” was processed at the weekend at the Angus family’s Signature Onfarm abattoir, near Clermont. The Shorthorn […]

Anthrax has been confirmed in South Dakota for the first time this year in a beef herd located in Ziebach county. According to South Dakota State Veterinarian Beth Thompson, several animals were found dead in an unvaccinated herd containing approximately 150 pairs. The Animal Disease Research and Diagnostic Laboratory at SDSU confirmed the disease from […]

A GROUP of talented university students from around the country are converging in south-east Queensland this week for an intensive program of professional development and red meat industry training. ICMJ participant Megan Walker at Super Butcher. The ICMJ AUS-MEAT Intensive Education and Development Week involves 19 students selected from the talented pool of participants at […]

Installations taking place at JBS Scone’s wastewater ponds, taking 28,000t of CO2 from the atmosphere each year   JBS Australia is constructing a bioenergy system at its Scone beef processing plant in the NSW Upper Hunter – expected to eliminate the equivalent of 28,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions each year, while generating Energy Savings […]