PROMINENT beef processing industry identity Richie Goldup, an innovator and early pioneer in livestock supplier payments made on carcase description, has passed away in Mackay this week, aged 85.
Mr Goldup forged a significant career in the Queensland processing industry, making a number of progressive contributions to the red meat industry’s progress.
Richie Goldup
He started work straight out of school at the local Thomas Borthwicks & Sons Merinda abattoir in his home-town of Bowen, North Queensland, in 1954. When he started work, the plant processed bone-in, frozen beef from about…
