Abstract

Poster presented at the International Leucaena Conference, 1‒3 November 2018, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Highlights

  • We are fifth-generation, north Queensland cattle producers

  • Irrigated leucaena in the Burdekin catchment produces high quality cattle for premium markets Leucaena bajo riego en la cuenca del río Burdekin, norte de Queensland, produce carne para mercados premium

  • We planted our first leucaena at Byrne Valley in 1998, after several visits to Kununurra on the Ord River in Western Australia

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Summary

Background

We are fifth-generation, north Queensland cattle producers. Between our 2 stations, Byrne Valley and Rangemore, we run around 8,000 head of cattle. The business focuses on producing beef for highly specialized markets in Korea, Japan and the USA. Byrne Valley (12,000 ha) is 90 km south of Townsville on the lower Burdekin River and is operated as a backgrounding and leucaena finishing property. Rangemore (15,000 ha) is operated primarily as a breeding property with a 2,000 head Bos indicus-based breeding herd. We have been infusing Angus genetics and aim to stabilize the herd at approximately 40% Angus content

Leucaena in our program
Findings
Animal production

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