REGULATORY hurdles are forcing her family’s newly-built Central Queensland meat processing facility to send cattle interstate to secure vital export sales, vertically integrated beef producer Josie Angus told a Queensland Rural Press Club lunch held in Brisbane yesterday.
Finished steers destined for the Angus family’s Signature Onfarm branded beef export clients are being sent 1000km from Clermont to Casino in NSW for processing – simply over a dispute about water.
She explained: “Our use of aqueous ozone for cleaning is a case in point. Compared to the traditional use of…