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Next: about 2 to 8 May 2027

Beef Australia

A week-long gathering of the Australian beef industry at Rockhampton, Queensland, held every three years.

A tile drawn for this day, not a photograph.

Cattle at Beef Australia

Beef Australia has been held in Rockhampton, which calls itself the beef capital of Australia, every three years since 1988. For a week, cattle producers, buyers and scientists from Australia and abroad meet at the Rockhampton showground for breed shows, judging of carcases, property tours, a trade exhibition and seminars on the business and science of cattle. Central Queensland is hot, dry country, and most of its herds carry zebu blood for heat and tick tolerance, so the tropical breeds and composites bred in Australia are prominent. The 2027 event runs from 2 to 8 May.

The breeds

BrahmanThe humped breed behind most northern Australian herds.Santa GertrudisA tropical breed widely kept in the north.

Also part of it, and being written: Droughtmaster (A Queensland composite of Brahman and Shorthorn.), Belmont Red (An Australian composite of Africander, Hereford and Shorthorn.), Wagyu (Bred in Australia for its marbled beef.).

About this page

Written by the EveryCow desk with AI assistance. Background: "Beef Australia" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from place to place and family to family. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

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