WITH plenty of interest already being shown in Beef Central’s 2024 US study tour and seats starting to book up, it is worth looking at the Texas part of the trip.
While the tour starts in Chicago visiting the Australian beef industry’s single-largest customer, McDonald’s, most of the time will be spent in America’s biggest and arguably most patriotic beef producing state.
According to the US Department of Agriculture, the Texas cattle herd started this year at 12.5m head – with some of the country’s largest producers, feedlots and abattoirs. It also has some of the global…