Feedlotting Services
How you benefit | Elders feedlots | Feedlotting specifications | Custom Feeding | Charlton Feedlot | Killara Feedlot
Elders operates feedlots in NSW, Queensland and Victoria, with 85 - 90% of the cattle passing through them marketed on back-to-back contracts.
How you benefit
- You can take advantage of Elders ownership of, and partnerships with three strategically located feedlots: Charlton, Killara and Goonoo.
- You can identify a market that best suits your livestock with a wide range of specifications.
- You are able to select from a range of payment options.
- You recieve valuable performance feedback, allowing you to better cater for your market.
- Charlton Feedlot (Victoria) is a custom feeding facility which targets the domestic supermarket trade and high quality long-fed export markets. Charlton is 100% owned by Elders Limited.
- Killara Feedlot (NSW) also custom feeds, targeting the domestic markets and short/medium-fed export markets. Elders owns Killara in a joint venture with Taiwan Pineapple Corporation and Taiwan Sugar Corporation.
- Goonoo Feedlot (Queensland) forms an integral part of the AACo management strategy, focusing on supplying cattle to the domestic market and short-fed export markets.
Feedlotting specifications
Time on feed varies from customer to customer but generally the custom feedlotting specifications are as follows:
| Market |
Time on Feed |
Breed | Induction weight | Sex |
Frame |
| Domestic |
70 days | British and British X | 300 - 350 kg | Mixed | Medium |
| Taiwan | 70 - 100 days | British and British X | 300 - 350 kg | Mixed | Medium |
| Korean | 100 days | British and British x Bos Indicus | 420 - 500 kg | Steers | Large |
| Japanese | 100 - 120 days | British and British x Bos Indicus | 420 - 500 kg | Steers | Large |
| Japanese | 150 - 180 days | British, British x Bos Indicus | 420 - 500 kg | Steers | Large |
| Japanese | 220 - 300 days | Angus, Murray Grey, Wagyu | 380 - 470 kg | Steers | Large |
