Our Company is continually looking to improve the productive capacity and efficiency of land resources.  This will be achieved by strategic additional waters and fencing, grazing management systems and additional yards, holdings paddocks and laneways.

Breeding Properties are located in safer rainfall areas and are generally operated as large scale low cost operations.

Growing properties are located in higher value feed zones located in diverse geographic regions on route to markets or feedlots.

Backgrounding/Farming properties are located strategically in highly productive rainfall areas to ensure consistency of cattle supply to the feedlots.  AAco farming operations are run in conjunction with backgrounding properties to improve reliability of feed pools and provide commodities for the feedlots.

Australian Agricultural Company runs two of Australia’s major feedlots, these are Goonoo Feedlot located at Comet in Central Queensland and Aronui Feedlot located at Dalby on the central Darling Downs.  Average capacities of these feedlots sees AAco with about 30,000 head on feed at any one time. 

The feedlots are used by the Company to maximise the finishing potential of the cattle bred by the stations as well as provide a measure of drought mitigation. The most important function of the feedlot system is the ability to produce prime cattle to a consistent high quality all year round.