QUEENSLAND-based Kilcoy Global Foods will start processing cattle next month at recently-acquired Lance Creek beef plant in Victoria’s Gippsland region.
Kilcoy Global Foods completed a deal to buy Lance Creek from its offshore-based owners some months ago, and has since undertaken a major refurbishment at the site.
It plans to start operations in late October, scheduling a soft start of a couple of hundred cattle per week, before scaling-up production early next year.
The development comes at a critical point when cattle turnoff across eastern Australia has grown dramatically due to…