Signature Onfarm is a unique, greenfield, 5,500sqm beef processing facility being built to strengthen the value chain in the local, Central Queensland region. Personnel will be able to reside on-property in a 70-person maximum, rural accommodation village with support services.

It will bring beef processing to the location of cattle production, improve district capabilities and outcomes, and optimise returns back to producers at farm gate. High-value production, at a rate of 200 head per day, will deliver hand-crafted beef products to domestic and international customers.

Signature Onfarm have just completed design and construction drawings, to building approval issue standard. The project is being broken-up into several construction components (work packages), to be completed individually, and supervised by a builder acting as an agent for the proponent. Signature Onfarm are seeking expressions of interest on the current, open work packages - listed below. Estimated building start date is during the 3rd quarter (August) of 2019, with 12-month build time.

Timing
* Detailed engineering and construction design is complete
* Final investment decision is expected mid-2019
* Commencement of construction is expected in 3rd Quarter (August), 2019
* Construction is anticipated to take 12 months

About the Proponent

Signature Onfarm will manage the beef processing plant, integrating the value chain created by the Angus family.

Angus Pastoral Company run a cattle herd of 35,000 head, bearing years of finely tuned genetics, across 160,000 hectares in Central and Northern Queensland. 18 years ago, they began selling their own branded beef products, creating Signature Beef to market them. Today customers span 30 countries and the height of Australia’s eastern seaboard.

Building their own abattoir reduces the company’s risk of continuing to outsource processing, offers greater mastery over production, and expands the opportunities of their home region