{"id":350977,"date":"2024-07-19T14:47:03","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T04:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=350977"},"modified":"2024-07-19T14:50:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T04:50:36","slug":"smithfield-named-finalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2024\/07\/19\/smithfield-named-finalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Smithfield Named Finalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>July 19, 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Smithfield Cattle Co&#8217;s Sapphire Feedlot is one of six finalists in the prestigious Australian Feedlot of the Year competition.<\/p>\n<p>The Proston-based company added Sapphire Feedlot, 32km east of Goondiwindi on the banks of the Dumaresq River, to its portfolio in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Sapphire &#8211; which is currently running 20,000 head &#8211; is a finalist in the &#8220;Above 15,000 head&#8221; category.<\/p>\n<p>It will be competing against Teys Australia&#8217;s Condamine Feedlot in the Western Downs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other finalists in the national competition are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3000 to 8000 head &#8211; Macquarie Wagyu (Qld) and Gundamain Pastoral Co (NSW)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>8000 to 15,000 head &#8211; Barmount (Qld) and Gunnee Feedlot Pty Ltd (NSW)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The winners will be announced at the Australian Lot Feeders Association&#8217;s BeefEx 2024 conference in Brisbane in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smithfield Cattle Co&#8217;s Sapphire Feedlot is one of six finalists in the prestigious Australian Feedlot of the Year competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":124236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,36],"tags":[1134],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - 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