Locations (1): Sandalwood feedlot, Dalby QLD
One time capacity: 16,000 head
2022 cattle turnoff: 35,000 head
2015 Top 25 position: 15 2003 position 14.
SOUTH Korean retail food and industrial giant Lotte International became the only Korean company to take a stake in the Australian grainfed beef sector when it purchased Sandalwood feedlot near Dalby on Queensland’s Darling Downs in 2019.
Sandalwood is one of the nation’s pioneer feedyards, having been developed in multiple stages from 1986 by former ALFA president Kev Roberts and investors the Carey family. The yard started with…