ONE of Australia’s largest lotfeeding areas has outlined its intention to scale up intensive agriculture industries, reducing its time to approve new feedlot developments.
Toowoomba and Surat Basin Enterprise held its annual protein conference in Dalby today, with a general focus on the sustainability aspects of the supply chain.
Western Downs mayor Paul McVay said 42 percent of the nations feedlot capacity was within 200km of Dalby, across 57 registered feedlots – many of them featured in Beef Central’s top 25 lotfeeders countdown.
“Intensive agriculture and the…